ack (compiled with default linux386) to compile itself?

[cardassian]

• I first compiled (and installed) ack with a linux386 default
• make clean
• CC=ack AR=aal make brings a handful of implicit variable declarations in llgen which are trivial to fix
• I stumble over:
  [2/10014] ack -o /tmp/ack-build/obj/util/LLgen/llgen/llgen /tmp/ack-b...in/llgen/main.a /tmp/ack-build/obj/util/LLgen/llgen/main/llgen/main.a
  FAILED: ack -o /tmp/ack-build/obj/util/LLgen/llgen/llgen /tmp/ack-build/obj/util/LLgen/llgen/main/llgen/main.a /tmp/ack-build/obj/util/LLgen/llgen/main/llgen/main.a
  /home/hein/bin/aelflod: the input file must have 4 sections, not 0.

In my opinion main.a looks fine:
$ aal tv /tmp/ack-build/obj/util/LLgen/llgen/main/llgen/main.a
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 41558 Apr 22 17:13 2023 LLgen.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 6638 Apr 22 17:13 2023 Lpars.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 5383 Apr 22 17:13 2023 alloc.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 1086 Apr 22 17:13 2023 cclass.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 19352 Apr 22 17:13 2023 check.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 34473 Apr 22 17:13 2023 compute.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 53085 Apr 22 17:13 2023 gencode.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 7751 Apr 22 17:13 2023 global.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 7092 Apr 22 17:13 2023 machdep.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 19586 Apr 22 17:13 2023 main.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 11586 Apr 22 17:13 2023 name.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 7466 Apr 22 17:13 2023 reach.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 16138 Apr 22 17:13 2023 savegram.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 9188 Apr 22 17:13 2023 sets.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 19519 Apr 22 17:13 2023 tokens.o
rw-rw-r-- 232/232 3037 Apr 22 17:13 2023 utils.o

Any hints?

Best regards,
Hans

[tkchia]

Hello @cardassian,

I believe the driver program (or maybe the linker) is a bit confused by the fact that the input files are all .a files, while it is likely expecting some .o files. There is probably a way to fix this and get the driver program to do the expected thing...

Thank you!