From owner-freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 3 12:40:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B15106566B for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:40:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete.chou@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com (mail-qa0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0308FC0C for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qaat11 with SMTP id t11so2257921qaa.13 for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:40:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=iem4QoC4+4154qaReFYGT3ZyaHuMB6doii7LAZZ7Q0w=; b=kQMWRYzSgsh9kZmKGCcm/ISsId0t0RCi96oHbc8AMCtnkKFw9lSvv6+K3p3ttgEGN1 UuAJA0gvD6b+MkrU7mxpYeu/zsx+sSqn2gfBAdxeHUXBynQNhVqok316TQMuGNvJuYVM fiuJhMGIpl3HJ6J0zPBxsyLGFpCaTwIzN09PF4FTGRX+xfHVQ7BzFLaBNm8KU8OWyPZn LCvc75Wmv32UgQWEuBnRF6f6/nA0wE/snrFi92wxrWYNxfKszrRBrSIVpUo1qA/x4zj0 osOtUTgGHvjTHzL55WGZnNZuqIGRiGA/YoQhJg/uevrFIQ2TB+vn9VBwsfYleF8lpYiE xf2A== Received: by 10.224.186.18 with SMTP id cq18mr2386499qab.44.1343997622095; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:40:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: pete.chou@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.79.82 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 05:39:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: pete Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:39:51 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: YxdQbACdQnDTaib9CZSX94CGl3k Message-ID: To: David Chisnall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD archive file formats X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:40:23 -0000 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 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" > >