From 3ba4f1a3cabfe565a72269e532c96b12fd76fb32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20K=C3=B6ckerbauer?=
 <thomas.koeckerbauer@dynatrace.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 07:46:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] configure: do not heck for ar if specified manually

Closes #62
---
 configure.ac | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f78a0f78..7e86ad67 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -59,10 +59,13 @@ AC_SUBST([EGREP])
 
 dnl AR is mandatory for configure process and libtool.
 dnl This is target dependent, so check it as a tool.
-AC_PATH_TOOL([AR], [ar], [not_found],
-  [$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin])
-if test -z "$AR" || test "$AR" = "not_found"; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([ar not found in PATH. Cannot continue without ar.])
+if test -z "$AR"; then
+  dnl allow it to be overridden
+  AC_PATH_TOOL([AR], [ar], [not_found],
+    [$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin])
+  if test -z "$AR" || test "$AR" = "not_found"; then
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([ar not found in PATH. Cannot continue without ar.])
+  fi
 fi
 AC_SUBST([AR])