readelf: Error: /usr/lib/libc.a: failed to skip archive symbol table

[Sean Bruno]

I've built a 32bit mips world/chroot.  If I use sson's qemu tree and his
kmod/binmissctl, I can enter the environment.  

Right now, I'm investigating why static compilation fails inside the
environment, which probably means I'm the first person to *ever* use the
tool chain natively on mips32.

Dynamic linking works just fine, but if I attempt to link -static, I get
a failure.  readelf and other tools seem to be unable to parse the .a
files, but .so files are just fine.

This is all inside the qemu-mips environment, if I examine the files on
my amd64 machine, I never see these errors.  I suspect some kind of
arch/endian issue, but it eludes me at the moment.  Ideas?

# uname -a
FreeBSD powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #11
r263173: Sat Mar 15 13:31:08 JST 2014
sbruno at powernoodle:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POWERNOODLE  mips


# readelf -a /usr/lib/libz.a
readelf: Error: /usr/lib/libz.a: failed to skip archive symbol table


# readelf -a /usr/lib/libz.so
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 02 01 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, big endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - FreeBSD
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              DYN (Shared object file)
  Machine:                           MIPS R3000
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x1450
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          89788 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x20001107, noreorder, pic, cpic,
32bitmode, o32, mips3
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         5
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         28
  Section header string table index: 27

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