On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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.
Good suggestion. I missed that entirely. >> + $(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. Apple's libtool should be installed with their command line tools, at least as far back as Snow Leopard.
