Bug 449514

Summary:	sci-libs/hdf5 does not respect AR
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) <xarthisius>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sci
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	243502

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-12-31 21:30:37 UTC

You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR ( x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar - /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar ) and calls directly ar - /usr/bin/ar
The possible solutions to fix this issue are:
1)Fix the buildsystem, if you can
2)inherit toolchain-funcs and use tc-export AR
3)inherit toolchain-funcs and use emake AR="$(tc-getAR)"


libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libh5test.a .libs/h5test.o .libs/testframe.o .libs/cache_common.o 
libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libh5tools.a .libs/h5tools.o .libs/h5tools_dump.o .libs/h5tools_str.o .libs/h5tools_utils.o .libs/h5diff.o .libs/h5diff_array.o 
.libs/h5diff_attr.o .libs/h5diff_dset.o .libs/h5diff_util.o .libs/h5trav.o .libs/h5tools_filters.o .libs/h5tools_ref.o .libs/h5tools_type.o 
libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libh5test_fortran.a .libs/tf.o .libs/t.o

Comment 1 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-01 19:01:11 UTC

$ AR=/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar ebuild /usr/portage/sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.10.ebuild digest clean compile
...
$ grep ' cru ' /var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/hdf5-1.8.10/temp/build.log

libtool: link: /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar cru .libs/libh5test.a .libs/h5test.o .libs/testframe.o .libs/cache_common.o 
libtool: link: /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar cru .libs/libh5tools.a .libs/h5tools.o .libs/h5tools_dump.o .libs/h5tools_str.o .libs/h5tools_utils.o .libs/h5diff.o .libs/h5diff_array.o .libs/h5diff_attr.o .libs/h5diff_dset.o .libs/h5diff_util.o .libs/h5trav.o .libs/h5tools_filters.o .libs/h5tools_ref.o .libs/h5tools_type.o 
libtool: link: /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar cru .libs/libh5test_fortran.a .libs/tf.o .libs/t.o

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-01-01 19:18:23 UTC

Please don't close for the fun =)

I can reproduce it on many machines, please give me the output without setting AR before the emerge.

Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-01-01 19:21:49 UTC

and..for the record, I didn't say it does not have AR variable in its buildsystem, simply it does not initialize AR as my system-ar

Comment 4 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-01 19:42:18 UTC

+  01 Jan 2013; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> hdf5-1.8.10.ebuild,
+  hdf5-1.8.8-r1.ebuild, hdf5-1.8.9-r2.ebuild:
+  Respect AR wrt #449514 by Agostino Sarubbo <ago@gentoo.org>