Bug 483734

Summary:	dev-util/biew : does not respect AR
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Michael Weber (RETIRED) <xmw>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA
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

2013-09-05 14:40:43 UTC

You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar) and calls directly /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)"


From the build log:

ar -rcu biewlib/libbiew.a biewlib/bbio.o biewlib/biewlib.o biewlib/file_ini.o biewlib/pmalloc.o biewlib/twin.o biewlib/tw_class.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/aclib.o 
biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/cpu_info.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/fileio.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/keyboard.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/mmfio.o 
biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/mouse.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/misc.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/nls.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/os_dep.o 
biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/timer.o biewlib/sysdep/x86_64/linux/vio.o

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-05 16:21:43 UTC

Is it legit to add " -rcu" in a static way like here?

@@ -34,14 +34,15 @@
 
 src_configure() {
        if use gpm; then
-               append-flags -DHAVE_MOUSE
+               append-cppflags -DHAVE_MOUSE
        else
-               append-flags -UHAVE_MOUSE
+               append-cppflags -UHAVE_MOUSE
        fi
        ./configure --datadir=/usr/share/${PN} \
                --prefix=/usr \
                --cc="$(tc-getCC)" \
                --ld="$(tc-getCC)" \
+               --ar="$(tc-getAR) -rcu" \
                --as="$(tc-getAS)" \
                --ranlib="$(tc-getRANLIB)" || die "configure failed."
 }

+*biew-6.1.0-r3 (05 Sep 2013)
+
+  05 Sep 2013; Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> +biew-6.1.0-r3.ebuild:
+  Respect AR, thanks ago, bug 483734.
+

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-09-05 17:03:02 UTC

(In reply to Michael Weber from comment #1)
> Is it legit to add " -rcu" in a static way like here?

Yes, this is fine. Sometimes upstream uses AR="ar $something" like one block, so your fix is right.