Re: Automake and AR

[NightStrike]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Den 2011-01-04 16:23 skrev NightStrike:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:11 AM, NightStrike <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:25 AM, NightStrike <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:37 AM, NightStrike <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, NightStrike <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> 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 a silly question since nothing else is happening, do you even have
> $host-ar somewhere on your path?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>

Yes.  The full cross compiler is in the PATH.  This is shown in that
the AC_CHECK_TOOL version works.