-Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
-you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
-files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shellyou are running, the syntax for setting
-environment variables is different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
+Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. Since these
+are static libraries, you may have to use F<ranlib> to make them accessible.
+Especially BSD systems like Mac OS X may require this, Linux and Solaris
+will do just fine without since their F<ar> command does ranlibs job as well.
+
+ ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
+
+This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
+include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
+shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
+different. Under csh/tcsh you use: