bin/127948: no -M option of ar not work on 8.0-CURRENT

Tue Oct 14 14:00:05 UTC 2008

The following reply was made to PR bin/127948; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at saunalahti.fi>
To: Zhiming Wu <zhiming.wu.atgm at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at 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