This should be working fine again with recent versions of QEMU, so I'm closing the bug. If you still have problems, feel free to open it again.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245724 Title: libfdt.a git compilation fail Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: I don't know the commit tags but I checked out dtc on the 28 of october at 20:27 in the tree of qemu (also git checkout out tonight). The compilation fail at line 234 in qemu/dtc/Makefile so I inserted that line: @$ /usr/bin/strace -o /usr/src/qemu_build/error.log.txt /usr/bin/ar $@ into the makefile at position 234 to see what is the exact problem but the strace log is inconclusive. for the error: /usr/bin/ar: deux operations différentes spécifiées liberal translation is: two different operation specified. the distribution is arch linux with binutils 2.23.2, gcc 4.8.2 and kernel kvm-3.12.0-rc5 from git. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1245724/+subscriptions