[MPlayer-dev-eng] configuration patch to allow setting of ar from the commandline

[Marc Hoffman]

On 8/16/07, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 August 2007 16:15, Marc Hoffman wrote:
> > On 8/16/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > I don't see why it needs to be run twice ..
> >
> > So you can override it.  if we do it at the end of the the loop i.e.
> > just check if target is set and then setup cc, as, ... then you can't
> > set them by hand. (which someone might want to do)  If I put it in the
> > loop i.e. where target is currently caught then its commandline
> > position dependent. (which might be ok)
>
> IMHO it is. At least it is what I expect to happen. i.e.
>
> ./configure --cc=gcc --cc=icc
>
> I expect it to use icc.

Thats exactly right, and why I think it needs to be done this particular way.