Matthias Dietrich wrote: > 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.
May I recommend a shell script that takes the "cru" argument and invokes the appropriate tool with the appropriate args?
