Re: [Mingw-users] mingw64

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: MinGW Users List <mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net>, "mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net" <mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-02-14T00:06:27Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers


On 02/12/2011 05:10 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello, and sorry for the delay,
>
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:26:24PM CET:
>> Or is plain 'ar' used somewhere instead of 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar'?
> Automake outputs 'AR = ar' in Makefile.in for rules creating old
> libraries iff neither AC_PROG_LIBTOOL nor another method to define
> AR correctly is used in configure.ac.
>
> So this issue concerns packages using Automake but not using Libtool.
>
> I figured with AM_PROG_AR eventually being needed anyway that would fix
> this in one go ...
>
> A good workaround, as already mentioned, is to use this in configure.ac:
>    AC_CHECK_TOOL([AR], [ar], [false])
>

This was sorted out some time ago.

cheers

andrew