* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:03:56AM CEST: > Darn, we need another name: 'archive' is likely too common when automake > is going to put all files with that name in the distribution of each > package using Automake. No need to send another patch, but any other > good suggestions that fit in with the existing scripts? > > I don't find arlib so bad, except that it sounds a bit like a library > rather than a program.
arlib is already taken by some package of that name; let's go with ar-lib which seems unused, judging from codesearch, fairly close to the original suggestion, and hyphens are sort of GNU-ish anyway. ;-) That is, unless you dislike it. Thanks, Ralf