[CMake] osx-10.5 ranlib vs ranlib -c vs libtool

[Bill Hoffman]

Bob Tanner wrote:
> On 2009-06-05 17:37:11 -0500, Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> said:
> 
>> First question, how to I add "-c" to ranlib evocation?
> 
> Sorry for the follow-up to my post, but here is the work-around I used.
> 
> IF (UNIX)
>     MESSAGE (STATUS "Unix")
>     IF (APPLE)
>           SET(CMAKE_C_CREATE_STATIC_LIBRARY
>           "<CMAKE_AR> cr <TARGET> <LINK_FLAGS> <OBJECTS> "
>           "<CMAKE_RANLIB> -c <TARGET> "
>         )
>     ENDIF (APPLE)
> ENDIF (UNIX)
I am confused about why you have to do this.  What is an internal 
library?   We create and use static libraries all the time on Mac OSX 
and never have this problem???

-Bill