From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 21:04:56 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 3BFD016A41B for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:04:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaiwang27@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AED713C455 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaiwang27@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1773165fgg.35 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:04:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=gvPaB7ueFEFVv33eEPFwvkzyXGCKDnQR6Uty0WhUPAI=; b=Y9xphIIVRsA1NsN3NeG3452HmL2gcV0oGjTRpBXZ3h+XV0WSaDieWCnY0/pk9nwpZNyfjwBn6jJ+Q0Hk7cO/47XD2rAvxRaIP7ljscbGDoTr7VEB/whRZ/UGTc9PHtZmpq/ZvRhFNRh4n5t2YapGvDPZDNBMpNqMdeUpWGwduVM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=WcSUyfhpn4bpljl/7/BEIArWcJ67IK1ewXQbdGkW1ldYaZJuV1fI1DcXpps5I30QGQNkZu8Zug4gSOxEEoyYBeLSqSXYBjcD0sf2qo8iTUf2H4LUH/YyU6ulYTJlbKbeMgzSLISKy5JW7AG4oJ3HhgAIQN31EG+ye/m93JvBFxk= Received: by 10.86.79.19 with SMTP id c19mr4453702fgb.31.1200171893973; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se ( [193.11.244.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i6sm3581971gve.5.2008.01.12.13.04.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 11CD6B849; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:04:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:04:46 +0100 From: Kai Wang To: Steve Kargl Message-ID: <20080112210446.GB1154@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Kargl , freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080112181344.GA70692@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 21:04:56 -0000 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