Use toolprefix for archiver ar when building libcompcert.a #380
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For compiling a cross CompCert, e.g. a 64 bit CompCert on 32 bit Cygwin, it is sufficient to set the toolprefix option. But trying to build an executable with ccomp fails with an error that libcompcert.a doesn't have an index. Using the toolprefix also for the archiver when building libcompcert.a fixes this issue.
This fix is required to build a working 64 bit CompCert for a 32 bit Windows Coq. Some researchers prefer the 32 bit version of Coq even on 64 bit Windows because it is faster (needs less memory and memoy bandwidth).
Please note that I plan to include this change in the CompCert 3.8 opam packages.