[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthias Dietrich wrote:
Unfortunately we run into a big problem. Automake assumes
that a library is built by calling "ar cru" and at least
one of our machine has a toolset where "ar" is not
available. We have another tool to build a library, it's not
called "ar" and it doesn't take "cru" as arguments.
Just to give you a little more information: this machine is
an embedded system on which we cannot run the compiler,
linker, etc. We need to cross compile from another workstation.
On this workstation a local "ar" is available but it breaks
the object files for our embedded system. So I really need to
use the platform-specific tool to build libraries.
I found that replacing "ar" is possible by inserting
AC_SUBST(AR) into the configure.in file and then setting
AR to my tool. But the "cru" parameters seem to be hardcoded
into automake.
May I recommend a shell script that takes the "cru" argument
and invokes the appropriate tool with the appropriate args?
Thanks for your suggestion. I will look into it and see if it
fits.
But anyway I am quite surprised about the "ar" command. It
seems almost every possible tool involved in a build process
can be defined (CC,LD,CPP,CXX, etc.) but not AR. It is even
possible to redefine AR on a per-library basis using the
_AR variables, but why not having the ability to redefine AR
globally with the appropriate arguments ?
Thanks anyway,
Regards,
Matthias
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