On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:28:26PM -0400, Poly-poly man wrote:
>Busybox has been great to me, in developing for my 486. However, one issue has 
>been giving me trouble - the crap ar implementation that can't write or 
>modify archives.
>
>I can, of course, get around this by using a host system's ar to create the 
>archives (during a buidl, for example), but it does get a bit ridiculous. 
>
>The main thing that made me very annoyed is the fact that busybox itself 
>cannot build without the ar s option - which is not present in busybox's ar.
>
>Any plans to improve this?

$ grep Unify\ archivers TODO

Patches to rewrite ar (or to add sensible write-support) are welcome, as
always.
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