[Bug 10646] New: Build fails with busybox provided `ar`

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Thu Jan 11 16:30:53 UTC 2018


https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10646

            Bug ID: 10646
           Summary: Build fails with busybox provided `ar`
           Product: Busybox
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Standard Compliance
          Assignee: unassigned at busybox.net
          Reporter: jesse at jessemcclure.org
                CC: busybox-cvs at busybox.net
  Target Milestone: ---

Current snapshots fail to build when /bin/sh is busybox's ash and presumably
would also fail on any system where `ar` is the busybox provided `ar` with the
following error from `make CC=musl-gcc`

>   LD      archival/built-in.o
> ar: unrecognized option: s
> BusyBox v1.28.0.git (2017-12-19 11:32:01 EST) multi-call binary.
> 
> Usage: ar [-o] [-v] [-p] [-t] [-x] ARCHIVE FILES
> 
> Extract or list FILES from an ar archive
> 
>         -o      Preserve original dates
>         -p      Extract to stdout
>         -t      List
>         -x      Extract
>         -v      Verbose
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:264: archival/built-in.o] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:743: archival] Error 2

Line 295 of the top-level Makefile sets the build variable AR as follows:

> LD   = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar

Changing this to the following was a functional workaround for me as /bin/ar is
still provided by gnu-coreutils on my system:

> LD   = $(CROSS_COMPILE)/bin/ar

I've confirmed also that setting `CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX="/bin/"` in
.config works - though this seems like worse of a workaround.

However, if /bin/ar was a link to busybox, the build would fail regardless.

Potential solutions would be to remove the offending parameter from the build
process if it is not necessary, or to implement that parameter in busybox's
`ar`.

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