Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:39:15 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" Message-ID: <20080113183915.GA56979@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20080113171514.GA1210@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080113103501.GB46123@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080113171514.GA1210@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se>
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Kai Wang wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:35:01AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > Can your 'ar' handle multiple targets? .. > > amd64$ ar --help > > ..snip.. > > ar: supported targets: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386-freebsd srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex .. > BTW, It does have advantage in "multiple elf targets" though: In the > case above, this binutils 'ar' (build for amd64) can not handle > elf64-sparc64 or elf32-powerpc object files, while "BSD ar" can. (arch > independent) Hi Kai, I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough - can your BSD 'ar', built on amd64 handle both 32-bit (i.e., "i386") and 64-bit (i.e., "amd64) ELF archives? >From the above it almost seems you're saying it can handle that plus more (other non-x86 arches). Is that correct? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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