script mode like the MRI(Microtec Research Inc.) "librarian" program.
Originally this option is provided by Binutils ar(1) to ease the
transition for developers who are used to writing "librarian" scripts.
We added this option to BSD ar(1) because:
1. Further improve the compatibility with Binutils ar(1).
2. There are still a few software using this -M option. (at least one
in our ports collection)
Suggested by: rink & erwin
source upgrades by falling back to GNU ar(1) as necessary. Option
WITH_BSDAR is gone. Option _WITH_GNUAR to aid in upgrades is *not*
supposed to be set by the user.
Stop bootstrapping BSD ar(1) on the next __FreeBSD_version bump, as
there are no known bugs in it. Bump __FreeBSD_version to anticipate
this and to flag the switch to BSD ar(1), should it be needed for
something.
Input from: obrien, des, kaiw
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.
Move our old a.out utils to /usr/libexec/aout.
Enable binutils and put the utils in /usr/libexec/elf
Enable objformat, a little helper program that calls the right
utils based on /etc/objformat and $OBJFORMAT.
This will enable the ELF generating tools.
Remember that this is only step one, the system is still compiled
and run in a.out format ONLY.
Problem left to solve: The BSD manpages wins over the GNU equivalents
as the are installed last. We need to distinguish between the manpages
somehow...
