Re: ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-09-21 Thread Stephane E. Potvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/10 03:24, Tim Kientzle wrote: On Sep 17, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 07:08:34PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: [...] building static egacy library ar:

Re: ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-09-19 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:01:04AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: GNU binutils has recently (well, March 2009) added a -D (deterministic) argument to ar(1) which sets the timestamp, uid, and gid to zero, and the mode to 644. That argument was added based on discussions on NetBSD about doing

Re: ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-09-18 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Sep 17, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 07:08:34PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: [...] building static egacy library ar: fatal: Numeric user ID too large *** Error code 70 This error appears to be coming

Re: ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-09-18 Thread perryh
Tim Kientzle kient...@freebsd.org wrote: Personally, I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to just always force the timestamp, uid, and gid to zero .. uid and gid, OK. Timestamp, no. It is not that rare to need to find out which version of some .o is in a particular .a file, usually in

Re: ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-09-17 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 07:08:34PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: [...] building static egacy library ar: fatal: Numeric user ID too large *** Error code 70 This error appears to be coming from lib/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_ar.c , which

Re: ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-08-29 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 07:08:34PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: I've been working on fixing the OpenAFS network filesystem client for FreeBSD, and it's at the point where I want to use the lazy man's filesystem stress test: buildworld. However, quite early in the process, I get the following

ar(1) format_decimal failure is fatal?

2010-08-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi all, I've been working on fixing the OpenAFS network filesystem client for FreeBSD, and it's at the point where I want to use the lazy man's filesystem stress test: buildworld. However, quite early in the process, I get the following error: stage 1.1: legacy release compatibility shims