darwin doesn't like gcc's ... ar and ranlib, I believe

[jhheider]

Found this in open-mpi.org; if it's the proper fix for squashfs-tools-ng as well, then we should immortalize it in brewkit's toolchain.

          darwin doesn't like gcc's ... ar and ranlib, I believe. try this:

  env:
    darwin:
      # FIXME: binutils ar/ranlib are broken on macOS?
      AR: /usr/bin/ar
      RANLIB: /usr/bin/ranlib

Originally posted by @jhheider in pkgxdev/pantry#4883 (comment)

[jhheider]

confirmed fixes squashfs-tools-ng as well.

[mxcl]

At least for now the solution is defining AR and RANLIB in the env for the builds. I am trying to figure out what the actual problem and brewkit solution is.

[jhheider]

roger. just reporting exceptional states up to brewkit so they can be generalized out as needed.

[mxcl]

roger. just reporting exceptional states up to brewkit so they can be generalized out as needed.

much appreciated

[mxcl]

some sleuthing makes me think this is just the state of things and we should just have brewkit auto set AR and RANLIB.

[jhheider]

i had considered that potentially likely based on earlier conversations we'd had about the nature of using apple's linker et al. for their custom patches.