Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:04:46 +0100 From: Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" Message-ID: <20080112210446.GB1154@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> In-Reply-To: <20080112181344.GA70692@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080111194036.GA28896@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20080112072138.GB1016@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080112181344.GA70692@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> I thought/knew there would be a delay between my post and
> your response, so I just tried building your ar outside
> of src/. It now resides in ${HOME}/bin.
>
> One thing I noticed is that it appears to have no support
> for the GNU long option names. At least, "ar --help" told
> me that it was an illegal option. Do you plan to add long
> option support? I suspect that this will be needed by the
> ports collection, and probably anything that uses libtool.
Steve,
Thank you for pointing out this. I just appended "add long option
support" to my TODO list. We need this also because our goal is to
maximize the compatibiliy with GNU ar.
--
Kai
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