Temporarily turn off ARFLAGS detection to work around a gold bug.

pylib/gyp/generator/make.py

 #!/usr/bin/python
 
 # Copyright (c) 2009 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Notes:
 #
 # This is all roughly based on the Makefile system used by the Linux
 # kernel, but is a non-recursive make -- we put the entire dependency
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  )
 endef
 
 CC.target ?= $(CC)
 CFLAGS.target ?= $(CFLAGS)
 CXX.target ?= $(CXX)
 CXXFLAGS.target ?= $(CXXFLAGS)
 LINK.target ?= $(LINK)
 LDFLAGS.target ?= $(LDFLAGS)
 AR.target ?= $(AR)
-# We don't want to run the detection multiple times. So, we
+# We detect arflags at compile-time (see detect_arflags above), but we
+# don't want to run the detection multiple times. So, we
 # - use $(obj).target/arflags/arflags.target.mk as the cache of the detection,
 # - use := to avoid the right hand side multiple times, and
 # - use ifeq instead of ?= because ?= is like ifeq and =, not ifeq and := .
 -include $(obj).target/arflags/arflags.mk
 ifeq ($(ARFLAGS.target),)
-  ARFLAGS.target := $(call detect_arflags,target)
+  # Temporarily disabling detect_arflags call due to a bug in gold with the
+  # detected flag.
+  # TODO(evan): reenable this once there is a release of gold > 2.20.1.
+  # ARFLAGS.target := $(call detect_arflags,target)
+  ARFLAGS.target := crs
 endif
 
 CC.host ?= gcc
 CFLAGS.host ?=
 CXX.host ?= g++
 CXXFLAGS.host ?=
 LINK.host ?= g++
 LDFLAGS.host ?=
 AR.host ?= ar
 # See the description for ARFLAGS.target.
 -include $(obj).host/arflags/arflags.mk
 ifeq ($(ARFLAGS.host),)
-  ARFLAGS.host := $(call detect_arflags,host)
+  # Temporarily disabled -- see ARFLAGS.target.
+  # ARFLAGS.host := $(call detect_arflags,host)
+  ARFLAGS.host := crs
 endif
 
 # Flags to make gcc output dependency info.  Note that you need to be
 # careful here to use the flags that ccache and distcc can understand.
 # We write to a dep file on the side first and then rename at the end
 # so we can't end up with a broken dep file.
 depfile = $(depsdir)/$@.d
 DEPFLAGS = -MMD -MF $(depfile).raw
 
 # We have to fixup the deps output in a few ways.
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         makefile_name,
         ' '.join(map(Sourceify, build_files)),
         gyp.common.EncodePOSIXShellList(
             [gyp_binary, '-fmake'] +
             gyp.RegenerateFlags(options) +
             build_files_args)))
 
   root_makefile.write(SHARED_FOOTER)
 
   root_makefile.close()