Re: Automake and AR

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* NightStrike wrote on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:59:53PM CET:
> Automake somehow defines AR to 'ar'.  I'm not sure where this comes
> from, but I do know that it's definitely not $host-ar, as I would
> expect.
> 
> Is this an automake bug, or user error?

Looks like an automake bug to me.  Just putting
  AC_CHECK_TOOL([AR], [ar], [false])

somewhere in configure.ac should serve as a workaround though.

Thanks for the report, will fix,
Ralf