I've noticed that when building a static library as part of a setup.py, I have to do

ranlib build/temp.<platformname>/*.a

and then run "python setup.py build" again before it works.

<platformname> is "darwin-1.3.7-Power Macintosh-2.1".

Can anyone suggest a patch to unixcompiler.py so that ranlib is invoked under Darwin? I've seen the comment "Not many Unices required ranlib anymore", so apparently Darwin is one of these...

Just