Invalid library on macOS when compiling libphp statically

Description

When building PHP as a static library for macOS, the resulting libphp.a file cannot be linked and the following (weird) error occurs:

ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libphp.a, building for macOS-arm64 but attempting to link with file built for macOS-arm64

The problem only occurs if at least one extension depending on another static library has been compiled (ex: ext-curl, ext-sqlite3...). The linking is done correctly if it's not the case, or if there are dependencies to shared libraries.

Extracting the .o file from the archive and recreating it using ar also fixes the issue:

mkdir /tmp/php-o
cd /tmp/php-o
ar x /usr/local/lib/libphp.a
ar rcs /usr/local/lib/libphp.a *.o

I suspect that it's related to libtool, and specifically this line:

/bin/sh /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/source/php-src/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --tag CC --mode=link clang -static -fno-common -Wstrict-prototypes -Wall -Wextra -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare --target=arm64-apple-darwin -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Os -fvisibility=hidden -pthread -DZTS  -prefer-non-pic -static -g -Os -rpath /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/source/php-src/libs -L/Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/buildroot/lib  -R /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/buildroot/lib ext/date/php_date.lo ext/date/lib/astro.lo ext/date/lib/dow.lo ext/date/lib/parse_date.lo ext/date/lib/parse_tz.lo ext/date/lib/parse_posix.lo ext/date/lib/timelib.lo ext/date/lib/tm2unixtime.lo ext/date/lib/unixtime2tm.lo ext/date/lib/parse_iso_intervals.lo ext/date/lib/interval.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_auto_possess.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_chartables.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_compile.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_config.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_context.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_dfa_match.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_error.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_jit_compile.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_maketables.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_match.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_match_data.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_newline.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_ord2utf.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_pattern_info.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_serialize.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_string_utils.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_study.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_substitute.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_substring.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_tables.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_ucd.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_valid_utf.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_xclass.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_find_bracket.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_convert.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_extuni.lo ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_script_run.lo ext/pcre/php_pcre.lo ext/curl/interface.lo ext/curl/multi.lo ext/curl/share.lo ext/curl/curl_file.lo ext/hash/hash.lo ext/hash/hash_md.lo ext/hash/hash_sha.lo ext/hash/hash_ripemd.lo ext/hash/hash_haval.lo ext/hash/hash_tiger.lo ext/hash/hash_gost.lo ext/hash/hash_snefru.lo ext/hash/hash_whirlpool.lo ext/hash/hash_adler32.lo ext/hash/hash_crc32.lo ext/hash/hash_fnv.lo ext/hash/hash_joaat.lo ext/hash/sha3/generic64lc/KeccakP-1600-opt64.lo ext/hash/sha3/generic64lc/KeccakHash.lo ext/hash/sha3/generic64lc/KeccakSponge.lo ext/hash/hash_sha3.lo ext/hash/murmur/PMurHash.lo ext/hash/murmur/PMurHash128.lo ext/hash/hash_murmur.lo ext/hash/hash_xxhash.lo ext/json/json.lo ext/json/json_encoder.lo ext/json/json_parser.lo ext/json/json_scanner.lo ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.lo ext/opcache/zend_accelerator_blacklist.lo ext/opcache/zend_accelerator_debug.lo ext/opcache/zend_accelerator_hash.lo ext/opcache/zend_accelerator_module.lo ext/opcache/zend_persist.lo ext/opcache/zend_persist_calc.lo ext/opcache/zend_file_cache.lo ext/opcache/zend_shared_alloc.lo ext/opcache/zend_accelerator_util_funcs.lo ext/opcache/shared_alloc_shm.lo 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ext/standard/dir.lo ext/standard/dl.lo ext/standard/dns.lo ext/standard/exec.lo ext/standard/file.lo ext/standard/filestat.lo ext/standard/flock_compat.lo ext/standard/formatted_print.lo ext/standard/fsock.lo ext/standard/head.lo ext/standard/html.lo ext/standard/image.lo ext/standard/info.lo ext/standard/iptc.lo ext/standard/link.lo ext/standard/mail.lo ext/standard/math.lo ext/standard/md5.lo ext/standard/metaphone.lo ext/standard/microtime.lo ext/standard/pack.lo ext/standard/pageinfo.lo ext/standard/quot_print.lo ext/standard/soundex.lo ext/standard/string.lo ext/standard/scanf.lo ext/standard/syslog.lo ext/standard/type.lo ext/standard/uniqid.lo ext/standard/url.lo ext/standard/var.lo ext/standard/versioning.lo ext/standard/assert.lo ext/standard/strnatcmp.lo ext/standard/levenshtein.lo ext/standard/incomplete_class.lo ext/standard/url_scanner_ex.lo ext/standard/ftp_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/http_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/php_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/credits.lo ext/standard/css.lo ext/standard/var_unserializer.lo ext/standard/ftok.lo ext/standard/sha1.lo ext/standard/user_filters.lo ext/standard/uuencode.lo ext/standard/filters.lo ext/standard/proc_open.lo ext/standard/streamsfuncs.lo ext/standard/http.lo ext/standard/password.lo ext/standard/net.lo ext/standard/hrtime.lo ext/standard/crc32_x86.lo ext/standard/libavifinfo/avifinfo.lo Zend/asm/make_combined_sysv_macho_gas.lo Zend/asm/jump_combined_sysv_macho_gas.lo TSRM/TSRM.lo main/main.lo main/snprintf.lo main/spprintf.lo main/fopen_wrappers.lo main/php_scandir.lo main/php_ini_builder.lo main/php_ini.lo main/SAPI.lo main/rfc1867.lo main/php_content_types.lo main/strlcpy.lo main/strlcat.lo main/explicit_bzero.lo main/reentrancy.lo main/php_variables.lo main/php_ticks.lo main/network.lo main/php_open_temporary_file.lo main/php_odbc_utils.lo main/safe_bcmp.lo main/output.lo main/getopt.lo main/php_syslog.lo main/streams/streams.lo main/streams/cast.lo main/streams/memory.lo 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Zend/zend_string.lo Zend/zend_signal.lo Zend/zend_generators.lo Zend/zend_virtual_cwd.lo Zend/zend_ast.lo Zend/zend_objects.lo Zend/zend_object_handlers.lo Zend/zend_objects_API.lo Zend/zend_default_classes.lo Zend/zend_inheritance.lo Zend/zend_smart_str.lo Zend/zend_cpuinfo.lo Zend/zend_gdb.lo Zend/zend_observer.lo Zend/zend_system_id.lo Zend/zend_enum.lo Zend/zend_fibers.lo Zend/zend_atomic.lo Zend/zend_max_execution_timer.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_optimizer.lo Zend/Optimizer/pass1.lo Zend/Optimizer/pass3.lo Zend/Optimizer/optimize_func_calls.lo Zend/Optimizer/block_pass.lo Zend/Optimizer/optimize_temp_vars_5.lo Zend/Optimizer/nop_removal.lo Zend/Optimizer/compact_literals.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_cfg.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_dfg.lo Zend/Optimizer/dfa_pass.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_ssa.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_inference.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_func_info.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_call_graph.lo Zend/Optimizer/sccp.lo Zend/Optimizer/scdf.lo Zend/Optimizer/dce.lo Zend/Optimizer/escape_analysis.lo Zend/Optimizer/compact_vars.lo Zend/Optimizer/zend_dump.lo sapi/embed/php_embed.lo main/internal_functions.lo -framework CoreFoundation -framework SystemConfiguration  /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/buildroot/lib/libcurl.a /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/buildroot/lib/libssl.a /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/buildroot/lib/libcrypto.a /Users/dunglas/workspace/static-php-cli/buildroot/lib/libz.a -lresolv  -o libphp.la

The problem can easily be reproduced using static-php-cli: https://github.com/crazywhalecc/static-php-cli/pull/153

PHP Version

PHP 8.2.9

Operating System

macOS 13.4.1 (M1)

Reproduce the failure using the static-php-cli pull request 153 setup on macOS arm64, then inspect the libtool invocation shown in the report and how it creates libphp.a. The work is done when a statically built libphp.a containing extensions such as ext-curl or ext-sqlite3 links successfully without needing to extract and recreate the archive.