[Buildroot] i686-buildroot-linux-gnu-as does not work

[Alexander Lukichev <alexander.lukichev@gmail.com>]

Hi Romain, Kirill,

On 01/27/2014 12:59 PM, Romain Naour wrote:
> I had the same problem with infozip and I fixed this error by patching unix/Makefile like this:
(...)
> match.o: match.S
>   $(CPP) match.S > _match.s
> - $(AS) _match.s
> - mv _match.o match.o
> - rm -f _match.s
> + $(AS) _match.s -o match.o
(...)
> (Ok, this patch is really weird...)
Why?

To me it seems that $(AS) should not be expected to output by default to <basename>.o, as is
apparently expected in the infozip's unix/Makefile. GNU as outputs to a.out by default.

If I build the package in my host environment, it picks "$(CC) -c" as the value for $(AS) and
works OK but when called from Buildroot, the value for $(AS) is set to invoke the toolchain's
as directly, and the output of it goes to a.out.

Am I totally wrong in believing that your patch is the right way to produce match.o rather
than original way of doing it?

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Best regards,
  Alexander Lukichev