Re: Git configure/make does not honor ARFLAGS

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2015, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQ_y6GDn3TsFuP1dYpYPzpdDCbuqmjnY72hDs32HnfbsQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150916193856.GA15738@flurp.local>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

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> On the other hand, as far as I know, it's *always* safe to replace
> 'ar' with 'libtool' on this platform, so we could just do it
> unconditionally.
>
> --- 8< ---
>  ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
> +       AR = libtool
> +       ARFLAGS = -static -o
> --- 8< ---
>
> I've tested this on modern Mac OS X, Yosemite 10.10.5 (x86_64), and
> ancient Snow Leopard 10.5.8 PowerPC (circa 2009), and it works fine
> in both cases, so perhaps that's the way to go.
>
> My one concern, however, would be people who've installed GNU libtool
> and have that in PATH before Apple's tools.

Although, perhaps specifying the full path to 'libtool' would be sufficient so as not to worry about GNU libtool being picked up by accident. Apple's command resides at /usr/bin/libtool on both modern and ancient Mac OS X, so maybe that's all we need.