Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:39:51 +0800 From: pete <petechou@gmail.com> To: David Chisnall <theraven@theravensnest.org> Cc: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD archive file formats Message-ID: <CANWS6neR0s%2BDteqRDkHX6Rb0dej%2Bi9TEDpmHAV53XzZ%2BD8141w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C65466F5-5D93-4EDF-92B8-A1207FC34B72@theravensnest.org> References: <CANWS6nfWO8WvVXeRVB=YrFhhc-GT1Yo%2Bxx38OcitpN-Puhuw=A@mail.gmail.com> <C65466F5-5D93-4EDF-92B8-A1207FC34B72@theravensnest.org>
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Hi David, Thanks for your information! Then I'll probably work on other features development first. And I also checked that MCLinker is able to link itself with archive libraries on i386 FreeBSD9. Thanks, Pete On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:43 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@theravensnest.org>wrote: > Hi Pete. > > The end of the man page says: > > > This manual page documents the ar(1) archive formats used by the > 4.4BSD > > and UNIX SVR4 operating system releases. > > I think it's probably safe to assume that the 4.4BSD format was dropped at > some indeterminate point in the past, probably when we moved from a.out to > ELF format binaries. If the tools currently shipped in the base system are > not producing them, then support is probably not important - people can > always install GNU binutils from ports if it is for some legacy software. > > David > > On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:36, pete wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm working on archive file format support in MCLinker project. > > > > GNU variant archive format is supported in MCLinker now. And from FreeBSD > > man pages, I can find there are some differences between BSD and GNU > > variants. However, when I try to check BSD variant on freebsd9 (i386), I > > can only find GNU variant archive files. And if using "ar" to make an > > archive file on freebsd9, I still get a GNU variant one. > > > > So, I would like to ask if BSD variant supported/existing in BSD system. > Or > > I missed something in configuring or others? > > > > I'm new to BSD. Any information will be helpful! > > > > Thanks, > > Pete > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-toolchain-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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