Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#200 closed enhancement (wontfix)
binutils: Add symlink ar to ar.exe
| Reported by: | Lewis Rosenthal | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Feedback pending | Milestone: | |
| Component: | *none | Version: | |
| Severity: | low | Keywords: | |
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Description
While building cabextract tonight, configure choked on being unable to determine the archiver. It was looking for ar, and not ar.exe. It would be easier to just have an ar symlink rather than have to create it or change the configure script to look for ar.exe (it was not apparent as to how I might override this on the command line).
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
| Priority: | major → Feedback pending |
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| Severity: | highest → low |
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
You need to reconfigure it first.
Indeed so, but it would be one less thing to remember to do (adding extensions to files when we already have many symlinked in just this same way, for this very reason).
Low priority, for sure. I just wanted to note it while it was on my mind. ;-)
Happy New Year!
comment:3 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
not to reconfigure any project leads to (usually) direct configure changes. which we don't support, as we fixed all autotools because of that. If you compare a original configure with a reconfigured configure you will see a lot differences. And mostly (if not all) those are needed anyway to find a lot stuff installed with rpm.
Due to this we will not create the symlinks for ar and the like. And if you look at our spec we usually "autoreconf -fvi" every project first.
You need to reconfigure it first. Then it works. Just using a unix configure will never work correct.