On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:41:45AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > "David O'Brien" <obrien_at_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_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Mon Feb 25 2008 - 07:33:08 UTC
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