Re: [patch] help for cross compiling lua

[dcharno <dcharno@...>]

Ico Doornekamp wrote:
> * On 2008-03-05 John Hein <jhein@timing.com> wrote  :
>
> > A classic way to cross compile tools is override
> > things like CC and RANLIB and AR.  When trying to build
> > lua for an arm-based platform, I employed this technique.
> >
> > Unfortunately the src/Makefile has 'AR= ar rcu'.  So when one
> > overrides AR (with the cross platform version, arm-ar), building
> > liblua.a fails because the 'rcu' is missing.
> >
> > I'd like to submit the following patch to fix that issue.
> > If there is a better place to submit this, please let me know.
>
> In case the number of votes helps a patch being submitty: I second this.

Third.  We do this every time.