Hi Peter. On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > > [BIG SNIP] > > I don't think cccl is the future, I see it as the past. It's > simply not needed when the needed bits are already in 'compile'. > > It's a bit sad to see all the effort going into writing private > scripts wrapping cl into something that looks like gcc, when the > effort could be spent making autotools just work instead. > For what concerns this: are you willing to re-submit your patch series about AM_PROG_AR to automake-patches? I will try hard to look into it, if you are willing to do the required testing and to patiently explain to me the details I won't undertand (and be warned that there will probably be many of them, since I'm a total Windows noob).
Oh, also, before doing that, could you please merge the 'maint' branch into the 'msvc' branch? Or I can do that for you if you prefer (but then you'll have to double-check that the merge has been really successfull). Thanks, Stefano