Hi, I have two open source projects (primesieve and primecount) which use the GNU build system. Both currently print a warning during make (tested on Ubuntu 15.10 and Fedora 22):
ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U') For primesieve I have opened an issue on GitHub https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/issues/16 with more details. A patch has been proposed by Pavel Raiskup to fix this issue http://www.mail-archive.com/automake-patches@gnu.org/msg07705.html on the 2nd June 2015 but as far as I can see the patch has not been merged into the master branch yet. I think that many (maybe even most?!) projects using the GNU Build System are affected by this issue. So my question is why hasn't this patch not yet been accepted? I am asking because I wonder if I should add a workaround in my configure.ac. But this is obviously not a good solution i.e. it is better to fix this issue in one upstream project instead of many downstream projects. Thanks, Kim
