Hello, I am currently working on a software project where we need to compile the same software for at least 3 different hosts (different means they have CPUs from 3 different families). Due to good previous experiences with autoconf/automake in developing software for multiple systems, we decided to "autoconfiscate" our software.
Unfortunately we run into a big problem. Automake assumes that a library is built by calling "ar cru" and at least one of our machine has a toolset where "ar" is not available. We have another tool to build a library, it's not called "ar" and it doesn't take "cru" as arguments. Just to give you a little more information: this machine is an embedded system on which we cannot run the compiler, linker, etc. We need to cross compile from another workstation. On this workstation a local "ar" is available but it breaks the object files for our embedded system. So I really need to use the platform-specific tool to build libraries. I found that replacing "ar" is possible by inserting AC_SUBST(AR) into the configure.in file and then setting AR to my tool. But the "cru" parameters seem to be hardcoded into automake. So my question is the following: would it be possible to have some kind of AR_FLAG variable, which would be set to "cru" by default but could be overriden by users ? Ideally if I could control AR and AR_FLAG I would be able to deal with all toolsets. Regards, Matthias -- ____________________________________________________________ Matthias Dietrich E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST Microelectronics Phone : +33 4 76 58 67 61 AST Grenoble Lab Fax : +33 4 76 58 56 60 12, Rue Jules Horowitz BP 217 F-38019 GRENOBLE Cedex ____________________________________________________________
