From unknown Sun Jun 22 00:38:09 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#24916: Followup to AR=ar issues Resent-From: Paul Campbell Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:06:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 24916 X-GNU-PR-Package: coreutils X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 24916@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.14787399407823 (code B ref -1); Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:06:02 +0000 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 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-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 unknown Sun Jun 22 00:38:09 2025 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.505 (Entity 5.505) X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org From: help-debbugs@gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) To: Paul Campbell Subject: bug#24916: closed (Re: bug#24916: Followup to AR=ar issues) Message-ID: References: <391db6d4-2785-adc5-c9f4-1d0b51066ae8@bernhard-voelker.de> <2070101.BHVe9x4mCD@rata> X-Gnu-PR-Message: they-closed 24916 X-Gnu-PR-Package: coreutils Reply-To: 24916@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:27:02 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1478766422-15073-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1478766422-15073-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Your bug report #24916: Followup to AR=3Dar issues which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 24916@debbugs.gnu.org. --=20 24916: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D24916 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems ------------=_1478766422-15073-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ------------=_1478766422-15073-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ------------=_1478766422-15073-1--