Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:48:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Kai Wang <kaiw@freebsd.org>, Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) Message-ID: <20080224204832.GA27938@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20080224194358.GC18096@team.vega.ru> References: <864pc1s1wa.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080222105239.GC94607@team.vega.ru> <86abltqjiz.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080222124617.GA16580@team.vega.ru> <86wsoxp2ob.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080223201808.GB65540@team.vega.ru> <20080224180433.GA21162@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080224190637.GB18096@team.vega.ru> <20080224193221.GA25526@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080224194358.GC18096@team.vega.ru>
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:43:58PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:32:21AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:06:37PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:04:33AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > Its seems those that have expressed an opinion want to switch to the new
> > > > 'ar' ASAP. So why not this patch?
> > >
> > > Because your patch won't allow to cross-build on
> > > systems predating 700044.
> >
> > Why not? If ${BOOTSTRAPPING} >= 700044 we add usr.bin/ar to the list.
> >
> I said predating 700044.
*sigh* what's 700044 - it would be nice if you'd say what that date
represents so one doens't have to dig around www.freebsd.org to figure it
out.
> > What is your patch to just get rid of the WITH_GNUAR/WITH_BSDAR similar
> > to mine?
> >
> ENOPARSE.
>
> How's the attached patch? The commit log would be:
I don't think you answered me - why do we need the WITH_* stuff at all.
Just install GNU ar as gnu-ar from now on and have the build system
handle it.
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