diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 5e32591e71a..0379997ca97 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 72114 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 72445 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for python 2.7.
 #
@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ RUNSHARED
 LINKCC
 RANLIB
 AR
+ARFLAGS
 SVNVERSION
 INSTALL_PROGRAM
 INSTALL_SCRIPT
@@ -4312,6 +4313,13 @@ done
 test -n "$AR" || AR="ar"
 
 
+# tweak ARFLAGS only if the user didn't set it on the command line
+
+if test -z "$ARFLAGS"
+then
+        ARFLAGS="rc"
+fi
+
 
 # Extract the first word of "svnversion", so it can be a program name with args.
 set dummy svnversion; ac_word=$2
@@ -26036,6 +26044,7 @@ RUNSHARED!$RUNSHARED$ac_delim
 LINKCC!$LINKCC$ac_delim
 RANLIB!$RANLIB$ac_delim
 AR!$AR$ac_delim
+ARFLAGS!$ARFLAGS$ac_delim
 SVNVERSION!$SVNVERSION$ac_delim
 INSTALL_PROGRAM!$INSTALL_PROGRAM$ac_delim
 INSTALL_SCRIPT!$INSTALL_SCRIPT$ac_delim
@@ -26051,7 +26060,6 @@ LDSHARED!$LDSHARED$ac_delim
 BLDSHARED!$BLDSHARED$ac_delim
 CCSHARED!$CCSHARED$ac_delim
 LINKFORSHARED!$LINKFORSHARED$ac_delim
-CFLAGSFORSHARED!$CFLAGSFORSHARED$ac_delim
 _ACEOF
 
   if test `sed -n "s/.*$ac_delim\$/X/p" conf$$subs.sed | grep -c X` = 97; then
@@ -26093,6 +26101,7 @@ _ACEOF
 ac_delim='%!_!# '
 for ac_last_try in false false false false false :; do
   cat >conf$$subs.sed <<_ACEOF
+CFLAGSFORSHARED!$CFLAGSFORSHARED$ac_delim
 SHLIBS!$SHLIBS$ac_delim
 USE_SIGNAL_MODULE!$USE_SIGNAL_MODULE$ac_delim
 SIGNAL_OBJS!$SIGNAL_OBJS$ac_delim
@@ -26117,7 +26126,7 @@ SRCDIRS!$SRCDIRS$ac_delim
 LTLIBOBJS!$LTLIBOBJS$ac_delim
 _ACEOF
 
-  if test `sed -n "s/.*$ac_delim\$/X/p" conf$$subs.sed | grep -c X` = 22; then
+  if test `sed -n "s/.*$ac_delim\$/X/p" conf$$subs.sed | grep -c X` = 23; then
     break
   elif $ac_last_try; then
     { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not make $CONFIG_STATUS" >&5