Some flavors of Unix require that the ranlib (1) program be run against a library, before that library can be used. For such systems, this confRANLIB macro is correctly defined for you to be ranlib . For other flavors of Unix, the ranlib (1) program is not necessary. For such systems this confRANLIB macro is defined to be echo . In the rare circumstance that the default definition is wrong for your site, you can change it by defining this confRANLIB macro: define(`confRANLIB', `/afs/support/cc/ranlib') |