Instead of telling both 'make' and the user that ranlib errors can be tolerated, hide the error from 'make'. This gives shorter output both if ranlib fails and if it works.
diff --git a/ssl/Makefile.ssl b/ssl/Makefile.ssl index 7fb8112..0663959 100644 --- a/ssl/Makefile.ssl +++ b/ssl/Makefile.ssl
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ lib: $(LIBOBJ) $(AR) $(LIB) $(LIBOBJ) - @echo You may get an error following this line. Please ignore. - - $(RANLIB) $(LIB) + $(RANLIB) $(LIB) || echo Never mind. @touch lib files: