Build fails while compiling ATF ("cannot find cr")

[Andrea]

Hi all,

 

  Armbian v23.11 build fails while compiling ATF, reporting weird "cannot find cr" message:

 

https://paste.next.armbian.com/evewilodap

 

Can you please help?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Andrea said:

Can you please help?

 

Use v24.02 or take commit id from there.

[SteeMan]

@Andrea in general, old branches are not maintained and builds on old branches are not repeatable.  There are references out to third party sources that change over time.  So as @Igor suggested , you should try with something more recent. (We hope in the future to make builds reproducible, there is work recently to that effect)

[Andrea]

Thanks for the advice!

[rymut]

@Andrea if i remember correctly this issue can be resolved using simple patch
 

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Doe <john.doe@somewhere.on.planet>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 18:20:14 +0100
Subject: Patching atf sunxi64 files make_helpers/build_macros.mk

Signed-off-by: John Doe <john.doe@somewhere.on.planet>
---
 make_helpers/build_macros.mk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/make_helpers/build_macros.mk b/make_helpers/build_macros.mk
index a99d51669..cc1270cd8 100644
--- a/make_helpers/build_macros.mk
+++ b/make_helpers/build_macros.mk
@@ -491,11 +491,11 @@ endif

 all: ${LIB_DIR}/lib$(1).a

 ${LIB_DIR}/lib$(1).a: $(OBJS)
        $$(ECHO) "  AR      $$@"
-       $$(Q)$($(ARCH)-ar) cr $$@ $$?
+       $$(Q)$($(ARCH))-ar cr $$@ $$?
 endef

 # Generate the path to one or more preprocessed linker scripts given the paths
 # of their sources.
 #
--
Created with Armbian build tools https://github.com/armbian/build

Error is due to value $($(ARCH)-ar) being set to platform gcc command and not platform ar command.