The following reply was made to PR pkg/30235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30235: IRIX: libtool on IRIX calls non-existent 'ranlib'
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:37:01 +0200 (CEST)

 >  make show-var VARNAME=RANLIB says 'ranlib'.
 
 That is the problem. It should be true so something like that.
 I do not know where this is supposed to be set. I think it used to
 be set in some IRIX-specific definitions file.
 
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