[Scons-users] Bug Creation of static library

[Mats Wichmann]

On 10/12/22 09:08, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 10/12/22 04:10, Yoann LEBANSAIS wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to report a bug, or compatibility problem on creation of static 
>> library with alternate compiler.
>>
>> We are using armclang compiler and armar to create static library. 
>> Unfortunatly, armar doesn’t support option without ‘-‘prefix. So the 
>> generated command: « armar rc my_lib.a all.o » fail, but « armar -rc 
>> my_lib.a all.o » is OK.
>>
>> I’ve both configuration with gcc 10.2.1 and all work. If all 
>> compilator accept the "prefix version", it could be possible to update 
>> scons ? Or maybe there is an other way to did it?
> 
> As a quick answer, you ought to be able to set ARFLAGS to what you need 
> - that mechanism supports changing the flags as necessary (and in fact, 
> some tool modules already do this depending on the compiler in user - 
> Sun and SGI environments, neither of which are likely to be helpful to 
> you).
> 
> Roughly:
> 
> env = Environment()
> env['ARFLAGS'] = "-rc"
> 
> Believe you need to set it after environment creation because the "ar" 
> tool seems to set it unconditionally.

I should have added - GNU ar does support the leading dash, so this 
should meet your "work for both" scenario.  Manpage:

 >        If you wish, you may begin the first command-line argument 
with a dash.