Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] mingw64

[NightStrike <nig...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Keith Marshall
<kei...@us...> wrote:
> On 28/01/11 15:37, JonY wrote:
>> There is/was a bug in autotools, where the wrong AR was used,
>
> It would be interesting to learn Ralf W's opinion on this, but I don't
> think this is an autotools bug; rather IMO, it is a bug in the client
> project itself, that it gratuitously invokes `ar' without doing...

It's in the thread on the automake list.  He admitted it was a bug,
and said he'd fix it in a future release.  Search the list archives to
find it.

I pinged it for a while.  He later said that since there was a
workaround, it's a very low priority.