Before the change build failed as:
$ make
...
ar clq libAfterImage.a afterbase.o ...
ar: libdeps specified more than once
It used to work until binutils-2.36 because 'l' option was silently
ignored on binutils-2.35. On 2.36 'l' became 'libdeps' flag with
required option:
Applied change as:
$ sed -i 's/ar clq/ar cq/g' *.in */*.in