D H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like the libs.am is setting AR = ar (I am > using version 1.5 of automake). This eventrually gets > inserted in Makefile.in, when libraries are being > created. This seems to override any other > initialization done by the user for AR.
make AR=my-ar should just work. Show us an example and tell us what OS/make you're running it it doesn't.