[Python-Dev] Help on issue 5941

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello,

I need some help on http://bugs.python.org/issue5941

The bug is quite simple: the Distutils unixcompiler used to set the
archiver command to "ar -rc".

For quite a while now, this behavior has changed in order to be able
to customize the compiler behavior from
the environment. That introduced a regression because the mechanism in
Distutils that looks for the
AR variable in the environment also looks into the Makefile of Python.
(in the Makefile then is os.environ)

And as a matter of fact, AR is set to "ar" in there, so the -cr option
is not set anymore.

So my question is : should I make a change into the Makefile by adding
for example a variable called AR_OPTIONS
then build the ar command with AR + AR_OPTIONS

*or*

that doesn't make sense and I just need to change the  behavior so it
doesn't look for AR into the Makefile. (just in os.environ)

Thanks
Tarek

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