"Daniel Richard G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am building coreutils-6.9 on a 64-bit AIX 5.3 system. > > The system ar(1) command, in its default behavior, only accepts 32-bit > objects. In order to accept 64-bit objects, a switch has to be given. So in > my standard build environment, I set > > AR_FLAGS="-X64 cru" > > This takes care of the bulk of Libtool-based packages out there. However, > in building coreutils, I encountered this:
coreutils doesn't use libtool, but it does use automake. And automake uses the "ARFLAGS" spelling. ... > I noticed that lib/Makefile uses ARFLAGS instead of AR_FLAGS. I set this in > the environment, reconfigured, and built again. Same error. > > Edited the variable manually in the makefile. The build succeeds. > > I think that the variable in question should be picked up from the > environment, for cases like this one (editing makefiles is cumbersome, > especially in a semi-automated build system as I have here). I would also > suggest renaming it to AR_FLAGS, for consistency with Libtool convention. No need to edit Makefiles. Just invoke make with your ARFLAGS setting on the command line: make ARFLAGS="-X64 cru" _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
