BSD archive file formats

[pete]

Hi David,

Thanks for your information! Then I'll probably work on other features
development first. And I also checked that MCLinker is able to link itself
with archive libraries on i386 FreeBSD9.

Thanks,
Pete

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:43 PM, David Chisnall
<theraven at theravensnest.org>wrote:

> Hi Pete.
>
> The end of the man page says:
>
> >      This manual page documents the ar(1) archive formats used by the
> 4.4BSD
> >      and UNIX SVR4 operating system releases.
>
> I think it's probably safe to assume that the 4.4BSD format was dropped at
> some indeterminate point in the past, probably when we moved from a.out to
> ELF format binaries.  If the tools currently shipped in the base system are
> not producing them, then support is probably not important - people can
> always install GNU binutils from ports if it is for some legacy software.
>
> David
>
> On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:36, pete wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm working on archive file format support in MCLinker project.
> >
> > GNU variant archive format is supported in MCLinker now. And from FreeBSD
> > man pages, I can find there are some differences between BSD and GNU
> > variants. However, when I try to check BSD variant on freebsd9 (i386), I
> > can only find GNU variant archive files. And if using "ar" to make an
> > archive file on freebsd9, I still get a GNU variant one.
> >
> > So, I would like to ask if BSD variant supported/existing in BSD system.
> Or
> > I missed something in configuring or others?
> >
> > I'm new to BSD. Any information will be helpful!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pete
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