GNU ar versus BSD ar (was: Re: Producing deb package with 'ar')

[mathieu <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Aug 6, 3:10 pm, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 08/06/07 07:32, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
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> > That will not work. ar(1) is GNU ar on most systems, while dpkg uses
> > ar-as-in-BSD-ar. The diffeences are subtle, but lead to problems in
> > some applications.
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> That's interesting.  Why?

Could anyone please comment on issues when using GNU ar versus BSD
ar ?

As a side note I cannot see any 'ar' executable in the debhelper
package.

Thanks
-Mathieu