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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Subject: Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:56:26 +0200
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> I have never seen this before.  Have you tried patching =E2=80=9Cconfigur=
e.ac=E2=80=9D
> as it says, adding =E2=80=9CAM_PROG_AR=E2=80=9D somewhere?

You could also try adding gettext and pkg-config to native-inputs.
Some autotools errors magically disappear sometimes...