Hi,

lam FTBFS with binutils 2.36 (currently in experimental). The reason is
that the romio module tries to use the -l flag to ar by default, which
doesn't do anything in binutils <2.36 and starts having a function in
2.36, one that is different from the one that the romio config script is
intending to use.

In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:

  * d/rules: Pass -ar_nolocal to the romio configure script because it uses
    the -l option for ar, which is something completely different in binutils
    2.36.

Thanks for considering the patch.

Logan