make error adding symbols: archive has no index; run ranlib to add one

[nguyenvulong]

I got this error while building httpd, but this might still help if you are working on something else.

Quick steps to reproduce
Run ld server/.libs/libmain.a, which is the file in the error message
Output /usr/bin/ld: server/.libs/libmain.a: error adding symbols: archive has no index; run ranlib to add one

Original steps that I got the error

./configure AR=llvm-ar CC=clang CXX=clang++ LD=/usr/bin/ld CFLAGS="-flto -O0" CXXFLAGS="-flto -O0" LDFLAGS="-flto -Wl,-plugin-opt=save-temps"
make

The error occurred after running make.
But I fixed it by removing LD=/usr/bin/ld from the ./configure command parameters.

I guess it has something to do with my LD=/usr/bin/ld, but I am not sure since I already re-installed ld but it's not fixed.
Could be because my server is a mess of different broken packages. Not sure.