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[PATCH] the ar tool is called gar on some systems

From
Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2007, 01:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20071003014934.GF20753@schiele.dyndns.org>

Some systems that have only installed the GNU toolchain (prefixed with "g") do not provide "ar" but only "gar". Make configure find this tool as well.

Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
---
I sent that some weeks ago but it seems it got lost.
 configure.ac |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 84fd7f1..ed7cc89 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ AC_MSG_NOTICE([CHECKS for programs])
 #
 AC_PROG_CC([cc gcc])
 #AC_PROG_INSTALL		# needs install-sh or install.sh in sources
-AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar, :)
+AC_CHECK_TOOLS(AR, [gar ar], :)
 AC_CHECK_PROGS(TAR, [gtar tar])
 # TCLTK_PATH will be set to some value if we want Tcl/Tk
 # or will be empty otherwise.

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