[Python-Dev] Re: [snake-farm] Autodetect /usr/ccs/bin?

[Tim Rice]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> [Anders Qvist]
> > Several machines in the snake farm fail to build libpython2.3 because
> > they don't have ar in their path. ar, ld and the like live in
> > /usr/ccs/bin, which seems to be some kind of standard (for generous
> > values of standard) as both SunOS 5.8, AIX 4.3 and HP/UX 11.00 seems
> > ot have this dir.
> >
> > Should the configure script try with /usr/ccs/bin/ar and ld if none is
> > explicitly supplied?
>

How about?
AC_PATH_PROG(AR, ar,[AC_MSG_ERROR(Can't find ar in your path)])


> This may be a good idea, but I don't know zit about this area.  I'm
> cc'ing python-dev, maybeo someone there understands this.
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>

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