A while back I posted about Darwin (OSX) needs to run ranlib when creating static libraries. I've created a patch and wanted to run it by you guys. Does the patch below look reasonable? Thanks, Just Index: unixccompiler.py =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -c -3 -r1.38 unixccompiler.py *** unixccompiler.py 2001/12/11 05:04:24 1.38 --- unixccompiler.py 2002/02/05 21:26:44 *************** *** 17,23 **** __revision__ = "$Id: unixccompiler.py,v 1.38 2001/12/11 05:04:24 fdrake Exp $" ! import string, re, os from types import * from copy import copy from distutils import sysconfig --- 17,23 ---- __revision__ = "$Id: unixccompiler.py,v 1.38 2001/12/11 05:04:24 fdrake Exp $" ! import string, re, os, sys from types import * from copy import copy from distutils import sysconfig *************** *** 61,66 **** --- 61,69 ---- 'archiver' : ["ar", "-cr"], 'ranlib' : None, } + + if sys.platform.startswith("darwin"): + executables['ranlib'] = ["ranlib"] # Needed for the filename generation methods provided by the base # class, CCompiler. NB. whoever instantiates/uses a particular