I've just moved from CMake 2.8.6 to 3.3.2 and creation of static
libraries is now failing. I've localised the problem as far as the
generated link.txt linker script. With 2.8 it begins with:
/usr/bin/ar cr target/usr/local/lib/libhadoop.a
with 3.3.2 it begins with:
/usr/bin/ar cq target/usr/local/lib/libhadoop.a -m64
The "-m64" flag is used to tell the compiler/linker to create 64-bit
executables and is set via the following CMake variables:
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS
However "-m64" is not a valid "ar" flag. I haven't been able to find
exactly how the linker flags are transmogrified into ar flags but I did
find the following in Modules/CMakeCXXInformation.cmake:
if(NOT DEFINED CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_CREATE)
set(CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_CREATE "<CMAKE_AR> cq <TARGET> <LINK_FLAGS>
<OBJECTS>")
endif()
But I'm struggling to understand when passing in linker flags to ar
*ever* makes sense, at least on *nix platforms. And that code seems to
be the same in 2.8.6 and 3.3.2 so it doesn't explain why the incorrect
flags to ar have appeared in 3.3.2.
This looks like a bug to me...
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Alan Burlison
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