Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar"

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> I thought/knew there would be a delay between my post and
> your response, so I just tried building your ar outside
> of src/.  It now resides in ${HOME}/bin.
> 
> One thing I noticed is that it appears to have no support
> for the GNU long option names.  At least, "ar --help" told
> me that it was an illegal option.  Do you plan to add long
> option support?  I suspect that this will be needed by the
> ports collection, and probably anything that uses libtool.

Steve,

Thank you for pointing out this. I just appended "add long option
support" to my TODO list. We need this also because our goal is to
maximize the compatibiliy with GNU ar.

--
Kai