Bug 85598 – /usr/bin/ar missing from my system

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Chris Moody - Linux Architect 2005-03-17 01:45:04 UTC]

emerge -u runs into bison-2.0.  I see the following results:
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if i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..     -march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -MT xalloc-die.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/xalloc-die.Tpo" -c -o xalloc-die.o xalloc-die.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/xalloc-die.Tpo" ".deps/xalloc-die.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/xalloc-die.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
if i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..     -march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -MT xstrndup.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/xstrndup.Tpo" -c -o xstrndup.o xstrndup.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/xstrndup.Tpo" ".deps/xstrndup.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/xstrndup.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
rm -f liby.a
ar cru liby.a main.o yyerror.o 
make[3]: ar: Command not found
make[3]: *** [liby.a] Error 127
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bison-2.0/work/bison-2.0/lib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bison-2.0/work/bison-2.0/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bison-2.0/work/bison-2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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so, something in the bison build is calling "ar" as a command.

Here is this system's emerge info:
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flipper ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.7-hardened-r18 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-hardened-r18 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 30 2004, 18:43:35)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6, 1.9.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r6
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.22
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.10/portage"
USE="x86 X acl apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emboss encode font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gps gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl snmp spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync to my local mirror
2. emerge -u world
3. bison-2.0 starts to build...and dies




I will admit that this system needed help earlier today to recover from the
issues relayed in
"http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-306469-highlight-aprutil.html?sid=9fa9120665659d1e166c6beecee8692b"
binutils and gcc needed fixed.

However, after successfully repairing gcc to a working state, emerge
successfully built the newest gcc and binutils with -0- error (nice work folks)
and worked to get several other outdated ebuilds up to date.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-03-17 06:55:05 UTC]

try running `binutils-config 1 && emerge bison && emerge binutils && emerge bison`

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-03-17 12:07:32 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84707 ***