Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:32:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no> Cc: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile) Message-ID: <20080225083255.GA40376@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <86ve4dzriu.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20080221152549.GB21518@team.vega.ru> <20080221173150.GA93693@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080222070728.GA56282@team.vega.ru> <20080222091642.GB57428@team.vega.ru> <20080222093234.GB17107@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080222102409.GD57428@team.vega.ru> <20080222105413.GD94607@team.vega.ru> <20080222170007.GA2622@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080224181004.GC21162@dragon.NUXI.org> <86ve4dzriu.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:41:45AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes: > > I don't like "gar" as that is pronounceable to the point I could easily > > see that being the real name of an existing program. > > I've told you already that there is no such program in ports. In > addition, no project by that name is registered in SourceForge, cia.vc > or ohloh.net. Did you look in every ~/bin and /usr/local/bin? > I don't see the point of being inconsistent just because > you can pronounce "gar". DES - why do you care?? Are you planning on invoking it directly? Additionally from what's been said, various autoconf configs may even explicity look for gar and use it instead of /usr/bin/ar. Given your desire to replace GNU ar with this new ar, why would you not want to use it everywhere? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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