[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7] configure: Explicitly set ARFLAGS so we can build with GNU Make 4.0

[Peter Maydell]

Our rules.mak adds '-rR' to MAKEFLAGS to indicate that we will be
explicitly specifying everything and not relying on any default
variables or rules. However we were accidentally relying on the
default ARFLAGS ("rv"). This went unnoticed because of a bug in
GNU Make 3.82 and earlier which meant that adding -rR to MAKEFLAGS
only affected submakes, not the currently running instance.
Explicitly set ARFLAGS in config-host.mak, in the same way we
handle CFLAGS and LDFLAGS; this will allow us to work with
Make 4.0.

Thanks to Paul Smith for analyzing this bug for us.

Reported-by: Ken Moffat <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
---
Ken: I think this should work (and it doesn't break building with
old makes), but I don't have a make 4.0 to hand; if you could
test it I'd appreciate it.

 configure | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 57ee62a..4eb3a07 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ query_pkg_config() {
 pkg_config=query_pkg_config
 sdl_config="${SDL_CONFIG-${cross_prefix}sdl-config}"
 
+# If the user hasn't specified ARFLAGS, default to 'rv', just as make does.
+ARFLAGS="${ARFLAGS-rv}"
+
 # default flags for all hosts
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes $QEMU_CFLAGS"
@@ -3664,6 +3667,7 @@ echo "C compiler        $cc"
 echo "Host C compiler   $host_cc"
 echo "C++ compiler      $cxx"
 echo "Objective-C compiler $objcc"
+echo "ARFLAGS           $ARFLAGS"
 echo "CFLAGS            $CFLAGS"
 echo "QEMU_CFLAGS       $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 echo "LDFLAGS           $LDFLAGS"
@@ -4239,6 +4243,7 @@ echo "HOST_CC=$host_cc" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "CXX=$cxx" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "OBJCC=$objcc" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "AR=$ar" >> $config_host_mak
+echo "ARFLAGS=$ARFLAGS" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "AS=$as" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "CPP=$cpp" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "OBJCOPY=$objcopy" >> $config_host_mak
-- 
1.7.11.4