Bug 127948

Summary: -M option of ar(1) does not work on 8.0-CURRENT [regression]
Product: Base System Reporter: Zhiming Wu <zhiming.wu.atgm>
Component: binAssignee: Gavin Atkinson <gavin>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 8.0-CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Zhiming Wu 2008-10-08 18:00:10 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Jaakko Heinonen 2008-10-14 14:58:37 UTC 
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
Comment 2 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-11-06 11:05:19 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

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)
Comment 3 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-11-06 11:05:19 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin

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Comment 4 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-01-18 21:41:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (2 months).  This now seems to be implemented, in  
HEAD at least.