Re: [HEADS UP] ar(1) front-end committed. (notes for cross compile)

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:10:04 -0800
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:00:07PM +0100, Kai Wang wrote:
> Would it be better if we call them gar and granlib?  Solaris did
> that. Also if I remember correctly, some ports probes gar.  We also
> call GNU make as gmake...

Why do we want

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.

Also, why do we want ports using gnu-ar specifically vs. what ever is our
native 'ar'?  If our native 'ar' isn't up to the task, we shouldn't be
doing this endeavor at all.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Sun Feb 24 2008 - 17:10:05 UTC

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