From 52c549d95d52209e21d9adbb08e86575cea8e552 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:03:09 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 1243: Build overrides configured AR setting

---
 configure.ac | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 586864c052..62ecb0220b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -95,8 +95,10 @@ if test "x$ac_cv_path_PERL" = "xnone"; then
 fi
 AC_PATH_PROG(POD2MAN, pod2man, $FALSE)
 
-dnl set $(AR)
-AC_PATH_PROG(AR, ar, $FALSE)
+dnl set $(AR) if not provided by the build environment
+if test "x$AR" = "x"; then
+  AC_PATH_PROG(AR, ar, $FALSE)
+fi
 AR_R="$AR r"
 AC_SUBST(AR_R)
 
-- 
2.47.2