Re: AR environment variable

[Jim Meyering]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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

I see your point, but this seems unusual enough
that I wonder if it's even worth talking about.

Do you want to send in a patch?

If it's worth writing a patch for coreutils, then it might
even be worth writing a new macro for autoconf.