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From: Zhiming Wu <zhiming.wu.atgm@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: no -M option of ar not work on 8.0-CURRENT
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>Number:         127948
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       -M option of ar(1) does not work on 8.0-CURRENT [regression]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gavin
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 08 17:00:10 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jan 18 21:42:08 UTC 2009
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan 18 21:42:08 UTC 2009
>Originator:     Zhiming Wu
>Release:        8.0-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD freebsd8.wuzm.home 8.0-CURRENT-200809 FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200809 #0: Sun Sep  7 22:13:46 UTC 2008     root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
when run "/usr/bin/ar -M <afile", error message "ar: invalid option -- M"
appeared. though I can not find "-M" option in manual, but the command
works fine on 7.0 RELEASE.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@saunalahti.fi>
To: Zhiming Wu <zhiming.wu.atgm@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/127948: no -M option of ar not work on 8.0-CURRENT
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:58:37 +0300

 On 2008-10-08, Zhiming Wu wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       no -M option of ar not work on 8.0-CURRENT
 
 > when run "/usr/bin/ar -M <afile", error message "ar: invalid option --
 > M" appeared. though I can not find "-M" option in manual, but the
 > command works fine on 7.0 RELEASE.
 
 The GNU ar has been replaced with a new implementation in 8.0-CURRENT.
 Support for -M option was added in 21 Sep 2008 to this version. Please
 try the latest version.
 
 -- 
 Jaakko
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 6 11:05:19 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
To submitter: It looks like this option was implemented on 2008-09-20. 
Can you please confirm that this PR can now be closed? 
(Thanks to Jaakko Heinonen for pointing this out) 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Nov 6 11:05:19 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Track 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127948 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 18 21:41:05 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout (2 months).  This now seems to be implemented, in  
HEAD at least. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127948 
>Unformatted:
