From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:17:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Git configure/make does not honor ARFLAGS
Message-ID: <20150913101727.GB26562@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8kV77h8cRA9Qo_1FYe9sv0zgsE7yKxaX+OtpRfj9+7wog@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:34:59PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> I'm working on an old OS X machine. I needed to perform:
> 
>   AR=libtool
>   ARFLAGS="-static -o"
>   ...
>   make configure
>   ./configure ...
>   make

Hrm. Your "$(AR)" is not really "ar" then, is it? It has been a long
time since I played with libtool, but what is the reason that you are
calling libtool and not "ar" in the first place. Is it that you do not
have "ar" at all, and libtool performs some other procedure? If so, is
there a more ar-compatible wrapper that can be used?

> The Makefile might benefit from the following for users who need to
> tweak things:
> 
>     ARFLAGS ?= rcs
>     ...
> 
>     $(QUIET_AR)$(RM) $@ && $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $^
>     ...

Yeah, that does sound reasonable (even if one does not set $(AR) to
something completely different, they might need slightly different
flags).

Care to send a patch?

-Peff