Re: Libtool issue with ar(1) on 64-bit AIX

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> I was worried that a script somewhere might try e.g. foo=`which $AR`, but
> setting AR as you say does work around the issue.
>
> Something to consider might be to have Libtool pass -X32_64 ("Processes
> both 32-bit and 64-bit object files") unconditionally to ar(1) on AIX, to
> prevent it from making any distinction between the two object types---and
> make it unnecessary to set AR_FLAGS manually in the first place :)

If this is done, then it will be necessary to verify that ar does 
accept this option.  Most likely there are some old AIX versions which 
do not understand this option.

Bob
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