Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Robert Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
