The TOOL variant will automatically search for a $host prefixed program (e.g. x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) rather than looking for `ar` only. This is useful when cross-compiling and it matches the behavior of the other tools that configure relies on (e.g. cc & ranlib).
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> --- configure.ac | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index ef49e0b..cbe84cf 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ dnl END READLINE and HISTORY LIBRARY SECTION dnl programs needed by the build and install process AC_PROG_INSTALL -AC_CHECK_PROG(AR, ar, , ar) +AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar) dnl Set default for ARFLAGS, since autoconf does not have a macro for it. dnl This allows people to set it when running configure or make test -n "$ARFLAGS" || ARFLAGS="cr" -- 1.8.0.2
