From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zmcc-2-mx.zmailcloud.com (zmcc-2-mx.zmailcloud.com [52.37.197.7]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22A3C386102B for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:23:54 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 22A3C386102B Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=symas.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=hyc@symas.com Received: from zmcc-2.zmailcloud.com (56.52.148.146.bc.googleusercontent.com [146.148.52.56]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by zmcc-2-mx.zmailcloud.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E51BB404BB; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:23:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from zmcc-2.zmailcloud.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmcc-2-mta-1.zmailcloud.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BC2ED04B3; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:23:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmcc-2-mta-1.zmailcloud.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52446D04B2; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:23:52 -0600 (CST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 zmcc-2-mta-1.zmailcloud.com 52446D04B2 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=symas.com; s=37C7994C-28CA-11EA-A30F-68F90BB9D764; t=1608747832; bh=SOLHVgOUwn9yVo7G2k1Q2tmz5xsX0AaTUkBwDWO648U=; h=To:From:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version; b=IQtlH2ew8boD4FgPSsWNOjRTVOZEcHqOKW/+MXjiLWDVPj3izj7bdPuFzmDWJgoVk vZfJB25VMOdI4PpUIcw9109Oy4F/jWCCQOoVHjuvniippC425Ck0KEcnoubBD2jQUG 5/CbiNxqsKGekIhmLlKFjrZ5rUgymu4BuFuLOCjBlUS8/tUsp0esbQj4daqvZqND3V 9UPABk5HTCBpRViuCzNzyOrIhns3G4GPRaiIXHUAaRzmVmutHRb5y7TRVZNp+/BmzL fUKvyg0jaqXEGCAM+XL4c86t9lROx1sYGAwkFWe/n4lT4eavGLZFB0bN3A/v+6+CNX KnnLn/QSNkNjg== Received: from zmcc-2.zmailcloud.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zmcc-2-mta-1.zmailcloud.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id wv0PQzxtCvrH; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:23:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.155] (unknown [84.203.30.25]) by zmcc-2-mta-1.zmailcloud.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C2F6D04B1; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:23:51 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] dependency list for static libraries To: Matthias Klose , Nick Clifton , Fangrui Song Cc: binutils@sourceware.org References: <53b8973b-40a4-2550-3307-66d7f13707d5@symas.com> <64fe82bd-9c00-b232-98d2-f46182fb16ba@symas.com> <9889c54b-4dd3-2275-6621-c2391cfd268d@redhat.com> <31f9062e-175d-06e9-695a-797c7ee11420@symas.com> <58620dc1-3bb9-aaae-b476-ebb613ecb627@redhat.com> <1aaf4429-074c-7912-e6e6-4d2f82d6ef10@redhat.com> From: Howard Chu Message-ID: <9887986e-c22e-445f-ee0c-2058c6b15a19@symas.com> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:23:49 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP, URIBL_RED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: binutils@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Binutils mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:23:55 -0000 Matthias Klose wrote: > On 11/3/20 4:14 PM, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote: >> Hi Howard, >> >>> Whitespace fixes done, attached. >> >> Sorry for the delay in reviewing this patch. This revised form >> looks good to me, so I have gone ahead and applied it to the sources. > > hijacking the 'l' option leads to build failures. > > In 2.35 it's documented as: > > l This modifier is accepted but not used. > > at least the build fails in > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/afterstep/2.2.12-14/+build/20720741 > > I don't know about the history of this modifier, but giving it a completely new > meaning is odd. No known version of ar on any POSIX/Unix system in the past 30 years has used this flag, so why are those packages using it? > > In about a week I can give you a list of packages from a distribution test > rebuild, failing to build because of this. > > Matthias > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/