Re: Automake and AR

[NightStrike]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> 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?