Re: Automake and AR

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* NightStrike wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 07:18:29PM CET:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Den 2011-01-04 16:23 skrev NightStrike:
> >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>>>> * 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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Was this ever fixed?  What version of automake will it be in?

> >>>>> Ping
> >>>> Ping
> >>> Ping x3 :)
> >> Ping x4

Just so you know why I haven't followed up on this so far:
We pointed out a very simple one-line workaround that you can use.

That makes fixing this bug fairly low priority.

Also, it will be fixed as a side effect of AM_PROG_AR eventually,
I suppose.

Cheers,
Ralf