543372 - need to hard-code emxomfar as the HOST_AR on OS/2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 542187

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Walter Meinl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100129 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: 

Bug536440 removed the HOST_AR setting from configure.in. On OS/2 we have two different archivers. Both are needed during compilation, for the main tree emxomfar.exe and for libffi ar.exe. After removal of the HOST_AR setting in main configure, configure finds ar.exe and sets it to be HOST_AR. Then the build breaks during compilation of modules/mar due to mixes between archives produced by ar.exe and emxomfar.exe.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Walter Meinl]

Attachment: re-add HOST_AR to the HOST section of OS/2

Comment 2

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

Does the patch currently in bug 542187 fix your issue?

Comment 3

[Walter Meinl]

Comment on attachment 424526 [details] [diff] [review]
re-add HOST_AR to the HOST section of OS/2

(In reply to comment #2)
> Does the patch currently in bug 542187 fix your issue?

on a quick re-run of configure with that patch (removed autoconf.mk) I was able to build host_mar.lib properly.
I canceled review request already, but want to do a complete build tomorrow to be sure. When it succeeds, I will dupe this bug.

Comment 4

[Dave Yeo]

I succeeded in building a working Firefox with the attachment from bug 542187.

Comment 5

[Walter Meinl]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I succeeded in building a working Firefox with the attachment from bug 542187.

it uses the same quotation marks I used here. Sometimes small differences have a big effect ;-)