* NightStrike wrote on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:11:00AM CET: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > problem because I need to use AR, RANLIB and LD from the Makefiles and I > > can't > > > find AR_FOR_BUILD and co. > > > > Yep. There is no code in Autoconf that sets these *_FOR_BUILD > > variables. If you like you can go look how GCC does it, and copy > > that. > > > > If somebody implements something general along these lines that > > is useful for several packages, it would be nice to have in Autoconf! > > Is gcc's solution not general enough?
I did not mean to imply that; in fact, I don't know. A solution inside Autoconf would benefit several packages, if it were general enough. But somebody has to do the work of putting it in Autoconf. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
