[cairo] Static libraries not built correctly with llvm-gcc

Krzysztof Kosiński tweenk.pl at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 12:21:21 PDT 2011


2011/6/20 Ryan Schmidt <cairo-2011c at ryandesign.com>:
> Hello,
>
> The MacPorts project has received the following report that the cairo static libraries do not build correctly when the compiler is llvm-gcc (which is currently the default in MacPorts 2.0.0 beta 1 when running on the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion):
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29842

This looks very much like a bug in the llvm-gcc toolchain's ranlib
utility, not Cairo. Specifically it looks like the utility can't
create static libraries (archives) which contain LLVM intermediate
representation and are intended for link time optimizattion.

Regards, Krzysztof


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