From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 08:16:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E011B16A421 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:16:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF9813C478 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:16:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1527739fgg.35 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:16:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.174.20 with SMTP id w20mr6931716bue.21.1200125808937; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:16:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.181.17 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:16:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:16:48 -0800 From: "Peter Wemm" To: "Steve Kargl" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080112072138.GB1016@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080111194036.GA28896@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20080112072138.GB1016@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> Cc: Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:16:52 -0000 On Jan 11, 2008 11:21 PM, Kai Wang wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:40:36AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:23:36PM +0100, Kai Wang wrote: > > > > > > I think it's time for "BSD ar" to get a public review after months of > > > bug hunting and cleaning up done by jkoshy@ and me. The majority of > > > the coding work was done during the summer of 2007 and was sponsored > > > by Google SoC 2007 programme. > > > > > > You can find the tarball at: > > > http://web.student.chalmers.se/~kaiw/patch/ar-20080111.tgz > > > > > > > Do I drop the ar/ directory into src/usr.bin as a replacement > > for the current ar/? > > Then make buildworld? > This will possibly not work because you may need to turn off > the build of GNU ar first, which is not simple because the build of other > GNU tools may depend on the build of GNU ar. (I'm working on this) I have a request.. can you put it in src/usr.bin/ar and make a build hook to turn it on or off? By all means, leave it off to start with if you're not sure that it is ready, but it would be nice to capture it in the tree. Perhaps something like a temporary -DWITH_BSDAR switch for building world would do. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5