[Call for testers] "BSD ar"

[Alexey Shuvaev]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:23:20PM +0100, Kai Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:01:40PM +0100, Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> > Ok, first bad news...
> > Well, maybe not so bad, and maybe not so new...
> > 
> > I have tried to compile editors/openoffice.org-2 on amd64 8-CURRENT
> > machine. It fails while compiling:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > =============
> > Building project nas
> > =============
> > /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m9/nas
> > mkout -- version: 1.7
> > -------------
> > [snip]
> > 
> > What it tries to execute exactly is, for example:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > rm -f libvoxware.a
> > ar clq libvoxware.a auvoxware.o config.o
> > usage:  ar -d [-jsvz] archive file ...
> >         ar -m [-jsvz] archive file ...
> >         ar -m [-abijsvz] position archive file ...
> >         ar -p [-v] archive [file ...]
> >         ar -r [-cjsuvz] archive file ...
> >         ar -r [-abcijsuvz] position archive file ...
> >         ar -s [-jz] archive
> >         ar -t [-v] archive [file ...]
> >         ar -x [-Couv] archive [file ...]
> >         ar -V
> > *** Error code 64
> 
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> Thank you for reporting this bug. I listed option '-l' in the getopt's
> optstring, but I forgot to write the corresponding case clause.
> 
> Please try again with the new tarball I just packed:
> http://web.student.chalmers.se/~kaiw/patch/ar-20080114.tgz
> 
> --
> Kai

Nice to hear from you so quick Kai!
The offending invocation like
> > ar clq libvoxware.a auvoxware.o config.o
seems to work now.

Just restarted the build of OOo-2 with the latest version of your ar.
Will report tomorrow :-)

Thanks, Alexey.