Re: [patch] help for cross compiling lua

[Ico Doornekamp <lua@...>]

* 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.

Ico