On OS X (and other maybe other systems) the default provided ar is not a GNU version and does not understand all the required switches.
To circumvent this fact always use the ar from cross tools which is proven to be a GNU binutils version (at least with OSELAS.Toolchain). Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andr...@biessmann.de> --- Sorry, I don't know how to provide correct patches/series. Is there any guideline how to use this git-ptx-patches magic? .../0005-opkg-allow-CROSS_COMPILE-ar.diff | 12 ++++++++++++ patches/opkg-utils-r4747/series | 1 + rules/post/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.make | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) create mode 100644 patches/opkg-utils-r4747/0005-opkg-allow-CROSS_COMPILE-ar.diff diff --git a/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/0005-opkg-allow-CROSS_COMPILE-ar.diff b/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/0005-opkg-allow-CROSS_COMPILE-ar.diff new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43a9ed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/0005-opkg-allow-CROSS_COMPILE-ar.diff @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +diff -Nrupa opkg-utils-r4747.orig/opkg-build opkg-utils-r4747/opkg-build +--- opkg-utils-r4747.orig/opkg-build 2012-01-19 14:20:32.000000000 +0100 ++++ opkg-utils-r4747/opkg-build 2012-01-19 15:49:06.000000000 +0100 +@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ if [ "$outer" = "ar" ] ; then + # chown the content to "0:0". files. This is needed as high UID values (> + # 99999) cause problems when parsing ar file headers + ( cd $tmp_dir && chown 0:0 ./debian-binary ./data.tar.gz ./control.tar.gz && +- ar -crf $pkg_file ./debian-binary ./data.tar.gz ./control.tar.gz ) ++ ${CROSS_COMPILE}ar -crf $pkg_file ./debian-binary ./data.tar.gz ./control.tar.gz ) + else + ( cd $tmp_dir && tar -zcf $pkg_file ./debian-binary ./data.tar.gz ./control.tar.gz ) + fi diff --git a/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/series b/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/series index d6f32a6..4752b71 100644 --- a/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/series +++ b/patches/opkg-utils-r4747/series @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ 0003-opkg-build-don-t-use-bashism.patch 0004-opkg-Added-sha256-support.patch # 84a0f076891d7ac6d8273feb988f63df - git-ptx-patches magic +0005-opkg-allow-CROSS_COMPILE-ar.diff diff --git a/rules/post/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.make b/rules/post/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.make index 27a74a7..ba9342d 100644 --- a/rules/post/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.make +++ b/rules/post/ptxd_make_xpkg_finish.make @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ install_finish = \ # $1: xpkg label # xpkg/finish = \ - $(call xpkg/env, $(1)) \ + CROSS_COMPILE="$(call ptx/escape,$(PTXCONF_COMPILER_PREFIX))" \ + $(call xpkg/env, $(1)) \ ptxd_make_xpkg_finish # vim: syntax=make -- 1.7.8.3 -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de