On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:05:10AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 19 October 2013 00:36, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > Seems I can just > > $export ARFLAGS="rv" > > before I configure, and it will build and install. Unless there is > > some reason NOT to do that, please consider this closed. > > Well, the reason would be that nobody in practice will do > that. Make should be setting ARFLAGS correctly (as per > its documentation) unless you've somehow managed to > set ARFLAGS to something incorrect in your environment. > If you "unset ARFLAGS" does it work? > > -- PMM I don't normally touch ARFLAGS. Here's a freshly-untarred qemu tree.
ken@ac4tv /scratch/ken/tmp/qemu-1.6.1 $echo $ARFLAGS ken@ac4tv /scratch/ken/tmp/qemu-1.6.1 $unset ARFLAGS ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --target-list=x86_64-softmmu make AR libfdt/libfdt.a ar: two different operation options specified Makefile:234: recipe for target 'libfdt/libfdt.a' failed make[1]: *** [libfdt/libfdt.a] Error 1 Makefile:153: recipe for target 'subdir-dtc' failed make: *** [subdir-dtc] Error 2 ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce