2012/3/21 Vincent Torri <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Christer Solskogen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 21/3-2012 8:46 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>>
>>>> as Kai and I pointed out, you misconfigured by not specifying the "--build"
>>>> option, implicitely telling autotools you were cross-compiling, resulting 
>>>> in
>>>> it wanting a "<triplet>-ar". Nowhere in that little story did any reference
>>>> to any "<triple>-gcc-ar" ever pop up. Autotools doesn't even check for such
>>>> an executable.
>>>
>>> of course it does !
>>>
>>
>> No, it does not.
>>
>>> i took one of my libs that i cross often compile. I configured it in
>>> MSYS by setting --host=i686-w64-mingw32
>>>
>>> result:
>>>
>>> checking for i686-w64-mingw32-ar... no
>>> checking for ar... ar
>>>
>>> So it does check for i686-w64-mingw32-ar...
>>>
>>
>> And Ruben just told you that it does not check for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar.
>
> ok, i misread that.
>
> Anyway, the fact that i686-w64-mingw32-ar is missing  *is* a problem
>
>
> i stop that conversation, now, it goes nowhere

Ok, but please remember about the advice of using --build option here
for binutils.  As I assume you have instead build native ar.exe etc.

Kai

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