From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Nov 09 20:05:40 2016 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Nov 2016 01:05:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51485 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4doB-000226-OM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:05:40 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55716) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dM9-0001IL-HS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:36:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dM3-0006ak-Hi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:36:36 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:35651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dM3-0006ae-F8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:36:35 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dM2-0003jc-DD for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:36:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dLx-0006ZK-D8 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:36:34 -0500 Received: from fred.taniwha.com ([203.86.204.69]:56797 helo=mail.taniwha.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4dLx-0006Ye-2C for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:36:29 -0500 Received: by mail.taniwha.com (Postfix, from userid 5001) id 2655F2482E83; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:10:18 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from rata.localnet (unknown [203.86.204.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: paul) by mail.taniwha.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9DC222482E47 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:10:16 +1300 (NZDT) From: Paul Campbell To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Followup to AR=ar issues Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:36:20 +1300 Message-ID: <2070101.BHVe9x4mCD@rata> Organization: Moonbase Otago User-Agent: KMail/5.2.3 (Linux/4.8.0-26-generic; KDE/5.26.0; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:05:39 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) I'm an OpenWRT user - which builds just about everything as cross tools - lots of systems don't do AR and RANLIB paths correctly .... and it's not really been a problem until recently .... I'm also an Ubuntu user and until I synced to their latest release OpenWRT builds worked great .... now a bunch of stuff fails .... the underlying problem seems to be that now by default ar run on an Intel platform adds a SYM64 header to archives even if they only contain 32-bit objects (in my case ARM ones) - the older cross tools just throw their hands up and barf I wonder if a stopgap solution might be to accept that AR is broken in the build environments and make ar smarter about what it generates, only adding that header if 64-bit objects are there Paul From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Nov 10 03:26:59 2016 Received: (at 24916-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Nov 2016 08:26:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51623 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4khH-0003uq-6M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:26:59 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:51860) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4khF-0003ud-E6 for 24916-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:26:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.101.10] ([217.87.217.218]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MOGBA-1c845A3nUa-005bSN; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:26:44 +0100 Subject: Re: bug#24916: Followup to AR=ar issues To: Paul Campbell , 24916-done@debbugs.gnu.org References: <2070101.BHVe9x4mCD@rata> From: Bernhard Voelker Message-ID: <391db6d4-2785-adc5-c9f4-1d0b51066ae8@bernhard-voelker.de> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:26:42 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2070101.BHVe9x4mCD@rata> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Lh2XMroo0O7+lYaEUnexqyy49iDR8KvwXlutNYekCHC2g1A50T0 ZsQHabdT2Yya4oodjA4g8mbUGom+sYYPas5GfTa30jLiWXzwpYVgwsTBW871ynDR3WPZI8J BVf8BhEt4f3nP/JiscEDUs5EUFbvYIXKUQmvrtXYiZO0EWM8Lmc6RH8qciS1lcRurNGmFIB fj1Jcdpl1C9R7TJwfLBCg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:w4MXS6O8Vn8=:qZMlkemmzrGryTq6BIKJ/o ZkVBbZX66ZIojxXci7EDzOE0nBvPJZtwsst73r7K1VsNS8RNSQZgO/tiA6ZN21lCNNFsitpOp REvPqNRKsZsypGP6sQLSA+QQ9AVpd+MKDz/ni5w+mjBBC9JEU3k4NTMTRwy+zDCtmAvhJ1ONs SFanRVGJPKTi+zzmW6RL+A5/6KupiKiS8BFBJ8bQZc60Sw1YEHQ2l/6RyN3mIm3g2fG67nRti byhKpzHFNCem6DDLzw2PZgz7/MHqP6WXppmMgQ0VMetfe9cJheTneycAjjFN/+TSbKFFAxZ1P b98Z3NFpWwdUaGYT4HD4x9ShVS/19tLYeaN9iEFsPDE2Pv82guAJFo8Uy0Re1aT46RNRprFt3 dSj92PIfuwOfnNxqBeOmLIhJv1N4X/utFVsfud/UzPr3i8uD+cx7fUJhEdgLsSvz49oL8KuEx Do3UBTSjQ9iCtBPIkhd2fAsFbbhT8VmUS75Fy89qgT1jtisOiuMeMhSR4bCsEv9b5OXOWP0f1 i6A6EoM7t55NV7Ed0qreLtfRcyp18Ci0mDN2RXP7p+GLII+Rr5LgCjMWzxy6RNaDNsSRmf8kb Abm8OrR8OSwzNvYf506C1yJ0x6VvmGt/9HRm+Ws8n2x14ntxGJTiNs55TVtj/0URsXVeP8EUg 8mORy9dnjMgoSJogUOh8JLtjPifCFHNnPc6MIJOTikAtwCV+xviwlEPhO3Hkv2XiP+ZyM5BxJ HR/icoagh0BUjw6I X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 24916-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) tag 24916 notabug thanks On 11/10/2016 01:36 AM, Paul Campbell wrote: > I'm an OpenWRT user - which builds just about everything as cross tools - lots > of systems don't do AR and RANLIB paths correctly .... and it's not really > been a problem until recently .... > > I'm also an Ubuntu user and until I synced to their latest release OpenWRT > builds worked great .... now a bunch of stuff fails .... the underlying > problem seems to be that now by default ar run on an Intel platform adds a > SYM64 header to archives even if they only contain 32-bit objects (in my case > ARM ones) - the older cross tools just throw their hands up and barf > > I wonder if a stopgap solution might be to accept that AR is broken in the > build environments and make ar smarter about what it generates, only adding > that header if 64-bit objects are there ar is not part of coreutils but from binutils. Therefore, there's nothing we can do here regarding this problem. Thus, I'm marking this as 'not a bug' in our bug tracker. Have a nice day, Berny From unknown Sun Jun 22 04:04:38 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:24:04 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator