Having trouble with ranlib

[John Hascall]

   I am porting a package from a "true" BSD system to an
Ultrix system and have run into a problem--in several of
this package's Makefiles are commands like:

   ranlib -t libfoo.a

and since there is no "-t" option for ranlib under Ultrix
much complaining occurs [this is Ultrix T3.1D-0 (Rev. 45)
Worksystem X2.2 System #1 --if that makes any difference].

   The man pages for ranlib under BSD says the following
about the "-t" option:

     If given the -t option, ranlib only "touches" the archives
     and does not modify them.

does that mean I can just use:

   touch libfoo.a

or is something more elaborate involved (like touching individual
archive members?)?

Thanks,
John Hascall  /  hascall at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu  /  gvjph at isuvax.bitnet
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