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Re: Automake and AR


From: NightStrike
Subject: Re: Automake and AR
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:20:29 -0500

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * 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.

You also said "Thanks for the report, will fix."

> That makes fixing this bug fairly low priority.

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

I don't know what you mean by "as a side effect."  Will it be in the
next version of automake, because other work is going on in
AM_PROG_AR?



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