Cc'ing Peter Maydell, who must have better ideas than me on building on Mac.
On Mon, 05/02 20:47, Christopher Friedt wrote: > > Currently, at least on Mac OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan), Qemu fails to build for > a few reasons. > > One of those reasons is that Apple's ld (at least ld64) does not properly > process archive files created with ar (even Apple's ar). > > After some RTFM'ing, I came upon this tidbit, which is unfortunate. Luckily, > autotools packages are not broken. > > "Libtool with -static is intended to replace ar(5) and ranlib." > http://www.manpages.info/macosx/libtool.1.html > > In any case, this change takes Apple's recommendations into account and > allows Qemu to build on Mac OS X El Capitan. > > Signed-off-by: Christopher Friedt <chrisfri...@gmail.com> > --- > rules.mak | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak > index d1ff311..44421af 100644 > --- a/rules.mak > +++ b/rules.mak > @@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ modules: > $(call LINK,$(filter %.o %.a %.mo, $^)) > > %.a: > +ifeq ($(shell uname),Darwin) I think you can use "ifdef CONFIG_DARWIN" here. > + $(call quiet-command,rm -f $@ && libtool -static -o $@ $^," libtool > $(TARGET_DIR)$@") Is libtool always available on Mac OS X? If not, we may need to add the detection to ./configure. Fam > +else > $(call quiet-command,rm -f $@ && $(AR) rcs $@ $^," AR > $(TARGET_DIR)$@") > +endif > > quiet-command = $(if $(V),$1,$(if $(2),@echo $2 && $1, @$1)) >
