Re: [Mingw-w64-public] wrong ar.exe name in ruben's build ?

[Vincent T. <vin...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Christer Solskogen
<chr...@gm...> 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

Vincent