On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > * NightStrike wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 07:18:29PM CET: >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: >> > Den 2011-01-04 16:23 skrev NightStrike: >> >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:51 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 >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> 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?