On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> 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 >
Thanks! I am also noting that in this and previous emails, you are recommending "false" as the third argument. In the manual, there are numerous locations that serve as examples that imply a colon is the proper choice (and thusly it is what I have used). Which is better?
