Bug 720450

Summary:	sys-apps/gawk calls ar directly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kentnl, sam
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	243502
Attachments:	build.log gawk-5.1.0-respect-AR.patch

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-05-02 11:15:54 UTC

This is an auto-filled bug because sys-apps/gawk calls ar directly.
The issue was originally discovered on s390, but it may be reproducible on other arches as well.
Attached build log and emerge --info.

NOTE:
If you think it doesn't make sense fix these type of issues, I'd like to point out that won't be possible use a different AR implementation (like llvm-ar) by setting the AR variable. So this issue has been reproduced by setting the AR variable to s390x-ibm-linux-gnu-ar and by removing the /usr/bin/ar binary.

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-05-02 11:15:59 UTC

Created attachment 635708 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-05-25 10:08:41 UTC

Created attachment 641672 [details, diff]
gawk-5.1.0-respect-AR.patch

Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-06-05 12:18:26 UTC

Upstream merged it as https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=47dce6a7002a8d7b818c19d574d81327b769871b