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
