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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:20:52 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile)
Message-ID:  <86tzjxibgb.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080225083255.GA40376@dragon.NUXI.org> (David O'Brien's message of "Mon\, 25 Feb 2008 00\:32\:55 -0800")
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
> 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?

1) I doubt it 2) bsd.ports.mk already addresses this for gmake by
explicitly setting MAKE=3Dgmake, it is trivial to extend this with
AR=3D/usr/bin/ar and RANLIB=3D/usr/bin/ranlib if you're so worried.

This is getting really counter-productive...

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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