Bug 597 - (REOP) Selecting busybox in buildroot's config clobbers ar (and probably other binutils)
Summary: (REOP) Selecting busybox in buildroot's config clobbers ar (and probably oth...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: buildroot
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows
: P5 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2009-09-05 18:14 UTC by Felix Nawothnig
Modified: 2009-11-22 20:27 UTC (History)
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Description Felix Nawothnig 2009-09-05 18:14:15 UTC 
Quoting the original bug, #0000536:

> Using buildroot from 20051105 I run into a problem trying to compile apps
> in my target system due to the fact that busybox's mini apps clobber the
> real binutils in buildroot.  This is most noticable with ar for which the
> busybox version cannot create archives as is necessary to compile many
> apps/tools.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>  vapier - 11-07-05 18:38  
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> this was disabled a while ago:
> $ grep _AR package/busybox/busybox.config
> # CONFIG_AR is not set 

But now... both busybox 1.11.x.config and 1.13.x.config have CONFIG_AR=y (again).
Comment 1 Peter Korsgaard 2009-09-05 18:57:46 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
>
> But now... both busybox 1.11.x.config and 1.13.x.config have CONFIG_AR=y
> (again).

The real solution it probably to ensure that the busybox installation step runs before the binutils one like it's done for util-linux.
Comment 2 Peter Korsgaard 2009-11-22 20:27:12 UTC 
Fixed in git, thanks (b71951b0e)