Ar cannot handle UIDs with more than 6 digits, and storing the mtime,
uid, gid and mode provides little to negative value anyhow for ar's
uses. Turn on deterministic (-D) mode by default; it can be disabled by
the user with -U.
PR: 196929
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3190
This is required in order for us to support deterministic mode by
default. If multiple -D or -U options are specified on the command
line, the final one takes precedence. GNU ar also uses -U for this.
An equivalent change will be applied to ELF Tool Chain's version of ar.
PR: 196929
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3175
section.
* Document the `-l`, `-M` and `-S` options.
* Improve the text describing the behavior of the `-r` option.
* Start a section on standard compliance.
* Indicate in the synopsis that the `-S` and `-s` options are mutually
exclusive.
Obtained from: elftoolchain
When set, it forces all timestamps and owners to zero and
modes to 0644. Useful for producing libraries that are
bitwise identical across multiple build runs.
Submitted by: Erik Cederstrand
Reviewed by: Kai Wang
ar(1)'s dependencies on compressor libraries -lz, -lbz2 and -llzma and
fixes building HEAD on some versions of FreeBSD[78]. Option -j and -z
is now accepted but ignored.
Compressed ar(1) archives are not useful without a ld(1) that can read
them. Also, the current ar(1) compression scheme prevents random
access of archive members and needs to be redesigned anyway.
Submitted by: kientzle (original patch)
Reviewed by: delphij
Discussed on: -current mailing list
Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
page stated, thus BSD ar(1) option -q, which was implemented based on
the GNU ar manual page, turns out to be incompatible with GNU ar -q.
This change will make BSD ar(1) -q a *REAL* GNU ar -q:
1. It will update symbol table. (same as unfixed version)
2. It will NOT compare new members spcified in the command line args
with existing members, instead, append them directly.
Reported by: Johannes 5 Joemann <joemann@beefree.free.de>
Reported by: Timothy Bourke <timbob@bigpond.com>
Tested by: Johannes 5 Joemann <joemann@beefree.free.de>
Reviewed by: jkoshy
Approved by: jkoshy (mentor)
Reviewed by: jkoshy
Approved by: jkoshy (mentor)
Tested by: erwin (ports build test on pointyhat)
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Reviewed by (earlier version): Jaakko Heinonen <jh[AT]saunalahti.fi>
Tested by (earlier version): Steve Kargl <sgk[AT]troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Tested by (earlier version): Martin Voros <martin_voros[AT]yahoo.com>
Tested by (earlier version): swell.k[AT]gmail.com
Tested by (earlier version): joel
Tested by (earlier version): Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev[AT]physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Tested by (earlier version): Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen[AT]gmail.com>
Thanks to gabor@ for building ports for it.
Thanks to erwin@ and kris@ for scheduling the ports build test on pointyhat.
And thanks to many others for their feedback.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
