[Buildroot] continued issues with AR

[Lionel Landwerlin]

Le samedi 25 décembre 2010 à 10:20 -0600, Heiko Zuerker a écrit :
> Hey,
> 
> it seems like I keep running into issues where it tries to use my  
> local ar, instead of the one from the external toolchain.
> I'm not familiar with the workings behind the scenes of buildroot, but  
> is it possible that something is missing somewhere?
> Do we need to always set i.e. AR=$(TARGET_AR) ?
> Could the same be happening for other files like ld,gcc and so on?
> 

Yup,

As some others packages, lvm2 does not use automake. So makefiles
remains mostly "hand written"...

With fully autotooled packages, we define CC/AR/LD/etc... variables at
configure time, so the configure script generates the makefiles with
proper CC/AR/LD/etc... variables definitions.
With semi autotooled packages as lvm2, we rely on what as been written
by the lvm2 developers.

One solution could be to define a kind of Makefile.half.autotool.in top
makefile to handle these specials cases (which do not seem that special
after all), in which we would define AR/CC/LD/etc... at build time (most
of them are defined in TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS already).

What do you think ?

Regards,

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Lionel Landwerlin