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Re: Why hasn't this ARFLAGS patch not been merged yet?


From: Michael Felt
Subject: Re: Why hasn't this ARFLAGS patch not been merged yet?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:08:00 +0100

whew :)

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Nick Bowler <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 11/3/15, Michael Felt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I suppose in a GNU only world, this would be okay. However, my man page
> for
> > ar still says:
> >
> >        -u
> >             Copies only files that have been changed since they were last
> > copied (see the -r flag discussed previously).
> >
> > while the option -D is not found.
> [...]
> > so, I think adding -D as a default will break "all" for me.
>
> The patch actually just removes 'u' from the default; it does not add
> any nonstandard options.  The issue is that some GNU systems are
> shipping versions of 'ar' which enable the (GNU-specific) 'D' option
> by default, which causes the 'u' option to print a warning and have no
> other effect.
>


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