<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/87654>87654</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            llvm-ranlib: -V option not supported (used by configure tests)
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            tools:llvm-ar/llvm-ranlib
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          emaste
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    Found while trying to build the FreeBSD ports collection with LLVM's binutils installed (instead of ELF Tool Chain).
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=258872

games/ponscripter-07th-mod uses `ranlib -V` to test for the presence of ranlib, but we report an unsupported option error and the test fails

```
    $echo_n "Checking for ranlib... ${nobr}"
    if ($RANLIB -V >/dev/null) 2>/dev/null
    then
        echo $RANLIB
    else
 RANLIB=granlib
        if ($RANLIB -V >/dev/null) 2>/dev/null
 then echo $RANLIB
        else echo "not found"
             echo "Unable to locate ranlib. If it's installed, try setting the environment variable RANLIB appropriately. (If your platform does not need ranlib, just set RANLIB=true.)"
             exit 1
        fi
    fi
```
</pre>
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