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List: coreutils-bug
Subject: bug#24916: Followup to AR=ar issues
From: Bernhard Voelker <mail () bernhard-voelker ! de>
Date: 2016-11-10 8:26:42
Message-ID: 391db6d4-2785-adc5-c9f4-1d0b51066ae8 () bernhard-voelker ! de
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tag 24916 notabug
thanks
On 11/10/2016 01:36 AM, Paul Campbell wrote:
> I'm an OpenWRT user - which builds just about everything as cross tools - lots
> of systems don't do AR and RANLIB paths correctly .... and it's not really
> been a problem until recently ....
>
> I'm also an Ubuntu user and until I synced to their latest release OpenWRT
> builds worked great .... now a bunch of stuff fails .... the underlying
> problem seems to be that now by default ar run on an Intel platform adds a
> SYM64 header to archives even if they only contain 32-bit objects (in my case
> ARM ones) - the older cross tools just throw their hands up and barf
>
> I wonder if a stopgap solution might be to accept that AR is broken in the
> build environments and make ar smarter about what it generates, only adding
> that header if 64-bit objects are there
ar is not part of coreutils but from binutils. Therefore, there's nothing
we can do here regarding this problem. Thus, I'm marking this as 'not a bug'
in our bug tracker.
Have a nice day,
Berny
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