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From: dworkin@Solbourne.COM (Dieter Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: Whats Missing?
Message-ID: <2569@salgado.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 04:04:01 GMT
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Reply-To: dworkin@Solbourne.com (Dieter Muller)
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In article <683@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@orange19 (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>Well okay, but I can put [bld] in my makefiles about as easily as I can
>replace ranlib with `lorder | tsort`.  The point is that I have 60
>makefiles for numerous programs and I don't want to have to modify
>them all.

So cheat.  Pick some convenient directory that you (hey, why not everyone
else while you're at it) have in your path and are allowed to add things
to.  Install the equivalent two-line shell script and name the result
``ranlib''.

No makefiles need be modified.  Or am I missing something incredibly
obvious again?

	Dworkin
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