Bug 720710 – dev-util/systemtap calls ar directly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2020-05-02 19:19:03 UTC]

This is an auto-filled bug because dev-util/systemtap calls ar directly.
The issue was originally discovered on arm64, but it may be reproducible on other arches as well.
If you think that a different summary clarifies the issue better, feel free to change it.
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 aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar and by removing the /usr/bin/ar binary.

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2020-05-02 19:19:43 UTC]

Created attachment 635734 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow 2020-09-08 22:58:32 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8ea5dd98f52cf8e2c02c419c91438b1fb5e6578a

commit 8ea5dd98f52cf8e2c02c419c91438b1fb5e6578a
Author:     Sergei Trofimovich <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2020-09-08 22:58:23 +0000
Commit:     Sergei Trofimovich <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2020-09-08 22:58:28 +0000

    dev-util/systemtap: respect user's AR
    
    Reported-by: Agostino Sarubbo
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/720710
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.5, Repoman-3.0.1
    Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <[e-mail]>

 dev-util/systemtap/files/systemtap-4.0-AR.patch | 11 +++++++++++
 dev-util/systemtap/systemtap-4.0-r1.ebuild      |  1 +
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

[Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 2020-09-08 23:09:07 UTC]

Proposed upstream as https://sourceware.org/pipermail/systemtap/2020q3/027024.html