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Cc: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile)
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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...

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