On 21/3-2012 8:46 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:

>> as Kai and I pointed out, you misconfigured by not specifying the "--build"
>> option, implicitely telling autotools you were cross-compiling, resulting in
>> it wanting a "<triplet>-ar". Nowhere in that little story did any reference
>> to any "<triple>-gcc-ar" ever pop up. Autotools doesn't even check for such
>> an executable.
>
> of course it does !
>

No, it does not.

> i took one of my libs that i cross often compile. I configured it in
> MSYS by setting --host=i686-w64-mingw32
>
> result:
>
> checking for i686-w64-mingw32-ar... no
> checking for ar... ar
>
> So it does check for i686-w64-mingw32-ar...
>

And Ruben just told you that it does not check for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar.

Forget about *-gcc-ar already! And no, ar and gcc-ar is not the same 
thing even if you want it to.

-- 
chs


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