129213 2014-02-22 11:09:20 -0800 Improper usage of ar in configure script 2014-03-25 15:29:17 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit WebKit Misc. 528+ (Nightly build) Unspecified Unspecified RESOLVED INVALID P2 Normal --- 126492 1 jeremyhu webkit-unassigned mrobinson oldest_to_newest 983618 0 jeremyhu 2014-02-22 11:09:20 -0800 I noticed this while configuring webkit-gtk 2.3.90: checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes checking for _Bool... yes usage: ar -d [-TLsv] archive file ... ar -m [-TLsv] archive file ... ar -m [-abiTLsv] position archive file ... ar -p [-TLsv] archive [file ...] ar -q [-cTLsv] archive file ... ar -r [-cuTLsv] archive file ... ar -r [-abciuTLsv] position archive file ... ar -t [-TLsv] archive [file ...] ar -x [-ouTLsv] archive [file ...] checking for bash... /opt/local/bin/bash checking if dolt supports this host... no, falling back to libtool checking how to print strings... printf 983621 1 jeremyhu 2014-02-22 11:16:13 -0800 This is from Source/autotools/SetupLibtool.m4 if test -z "$AR_FLAGS"; then if "${AR:-ar}" -V | grep -q 'GNU ar'; then AR_FLAGS="cruT" else AR_FLAGS="cru" fi fi So you might want to just direct stderr to /dev/null to not raise alarms... 994394 2 mrobinson 2014-03-25 15:29:17 -0700 The CMake build has supplanted the autotools build.