Den 09/11/2012 kl. 16.22 skrev Erik Cederstrand <[email protected]>:

> Den 09/11/2012 kl. 15.36 skrev Warner Losh <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On Nov 9, 2012, at 3:52 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello toolchainers,
>>> 
>>> I'm attempting to clean up hardcoded ar(1) flags in the tree to use the 
>>> global ARFLAGS in share/mk/sys.mk instead. I want to be able to add "-D" to 
>>> ARFLAGS and have it used everywhere.
>>> 
>>> The patch changes some hardcoded flags from e.g. "cru" to the default "rl" 
>>> or "rv" from sys.mk. Looking at the manpage for ar(1), I'm pretty sure this 
>>> is safe, and my runtime tests haven't turned out any problems. Loosing the 
>>> "u" flags means loosing a bit in performance in theory, but I have tested 
>>> this to be negligible in a buildworld / kernel run. In a later iteration, 
>>> maybe the default flags can be added a "u".
>>> 
>>> Are there any problems with this patch?
>> 
>> I don't like losing the 'c' flag.  Makes things in the build too whiny.
>> Why purposely lose the 'u' flag that you know helps performance?
>> Why move from cq to rl? This can be a big slow down...
> 
> I'd actually like to add both 'u' and 'c', I just didn't want to both clean 
> up and change the default in the same patch. A followup patch could be:

If there are no other objections, I'll try to both patches into the tree (I 
have no commit bit myself).

Erik
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