This is an auto-filled bug because dev-libs/libmowgli calls ar directly. The issue was originally discovered on amd64, 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 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar and by removing the /usr/bin/ar binary.
Created attachment 638994 [details] build.log build log and emerge --info
Created attachment 642954 [details, diff] ar fix
Please try out the attached patch and let me know if it fixes the issue.
(In reply to Wade Cline from comment #3) > Please try out the attached patch and let me know if it fixes the issue. It's better to just include the .ac patch and eautoreconf in the ebuild so that we're not carrying large patches in the tree. Anyway, this got upstreamed here (by Wade): https://github.com/atheme/libmowgli-2/commit/e930ad346fbd929165f2eb15fb28678f46902297 Wade: if it works after moving /usr/bin/ar to /usr/bin/ar.bak or similar, just make a PR for it. :)
>It's better to just include the .ac patch and eautoreconf in the ebuild so that we're not carrying large patches in the tree. I gave that a quick try but it didn't work: configure.ac:36: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. I could dig into this more if it's required for merging. I'll attach the v2 attempt thus far. >Wade: if it works after moving /usr/bin/ar to /usr/bin/ar.bak or similar, just make a PR for it. :) Will do!
Created attachment 658840 [details, diff] ar_fix_v2 (broken) Patch version that attempts to use re-generate the configuration file (WARNING: incomplete; does not appear to work properly).
(In reply to Wade Cline from comment #6) > Created attachment 658840 [details, diff] [details, diff] > ar_fix_v2 (broken) > > Patch version that attempts to use re-generate the configuration file > (WARNING: incomplete; does not appear to work properly). This is good, and nearly there. Notice that when we do configure, we get: checking for PS_STRINGS... no checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib ./configure: 4041: BUILDSYS_SHARED_LIB: not found <--- key stuff here ./configure: 4042: BUILDSYS_PROG_IMPLIB: not found [...] configure: error: Invalid --with-openssl value The openssl thing is a red herring. We need to tell eautoreconf about upstream's M4 macros, which are in the 'm4' directory here (grep for BUILDSYS_SHARED_LIB showed this, but also obvious first place to check). So, AT_M4DIR="m4" eautoreconf worked for me. I then wanted to deal with some warnings: >make[1]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode. This is because buildsys.mk.in invokes ${MAKE} with ${MFLAGS} which is redundant for modern GNU Make (make will recognise it is calling make and pass in parameters by itself).
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9a238bd0556fd612644eab4e0f329f60ab6f970b commit 9a238bd0556fd612644eab4e0f329f60ab6f970b Author: Wade Cline <wadecline@hotmail.com> AuthorDate: 2020-05-31 21:58:30 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-09-14 01:55:49 +0000 dev-libs/libmowgli: Fix 'ar' bug Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/723028 Signed-off-by: Wade Cline <wadecline@hotmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17449 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> ...li-2.1.3-use-host-tools-for-ar-and-ranlib.patch | 231 +++++++++++++++++++++ ...i-2.1.3-r1.ebuild => libmowgli-2.1.3-r2.ebuild} | 6 +- 2 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks for the amendments. I'll keep those techniques in mind next time.
