[OE-core] CMake error? CMAKE_AR-NOTFOUND

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 14:30 +0100, Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> Hi,
> currently I try to build a native software that needs CMake, it is a
> required tool to cross compile another software.
> An it seems that CMAKE_AR is set to an invalid value (CMAKE_AR-NOTFOUND).
> The cmake.bbclass has no entry about this.
> 
> By searching the web, the only information found was that it can be
> set to ${GCC_PATH}/dld.
> As I am usually not working with CMake where can I find the native
> "ar" or "dld" executable in OpenEmbedded?
> 
> Using the archiver from my hosts /usr/bin/ar seems to be wrong since
> in cmake.bbclass "set( CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM ONLY )"
> prohibits it.

In the same way the class figures out OECMAKE_C_COMPILER from ${CC}, you
probably need to figure out ar from ${AR} and pass it to the cmake
configuration.

Note I know very little about cmake so I'm of less help with that
piece ;-).

Cheers,

Richard