From 8165fa6ad0ffee11d0342b724331ace0a6f49773 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:54:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix finding the static linker for native compiler in cross
 build

Native ar and cross ar are not the same!
---
 mesonbuild/environment.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/environment.py b/mesonbuild/environment.py
index f287cb0df..4bf77acb5 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/environment.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/environment.py
@@ -1023,7 +1023,8 @@ class Environment:
         return comp, cross_comp
 
     def detect_static_linker(self, compiler):
-        linker = self.binaries.host.lookup_entry('ar')
+        for_machine = MachineChoice.HOST if compiler.is_cross else MachineChoice.BUILD
+        linker = self.binaries[for_machine].lookup_entry('ar')
         if linker is not None:
             linkers = [linker]
         else: