I'm running Squid v2.5S8 on a Linux (Fedora Core 2) box. It seems that I can't get configure to, ahem, configure the library manager. If I do: AR=xiar ./configure --set-some-squid-options-here or export AR=xiar ./configure --set-some-squid-options-here I find that configure always selects /usr/bin/ar as the value to assign to the AR variable, then it creates makefiles that use /usr/bin/ar at build time. Configure does respect my setting of CC=mycompiler, but seems resistant to letting me specify the value of AR. How can I persuade configure to use the specified library manager? Thanks.