Re: AR environment variable

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Robert Connolly <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello. While building Coreutils with Intel's compiler I noticed the AR
> > environment variable is being ignored, and 'ar' is being used regardless
> > of "AR=another_ar".
> >
> > The top level Makefile needs to pass AR down to lib/Makefile.
>
> That shouldn't be necessary.
> Run make like this, and it will do what you want:
>
>   make AR=another_ar ...

you *could* do that, but it seems silly to have all of the toolchain related 
env variables properly respected except for AR
-mike

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