Author: kaiw
Date: Sun Dec 26 18:12:13 2010
New Revision: 216717
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216717
Log:
Improve the description of the `-q` option.
Obtained from: elftoolchain
Modified:
head/usr.bin/ar/ar.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/ar/ar.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/ar/ar.1 Sun Dec 26 18:10:39 2010 (r216716)
+++ head/usr.bin/ar/ar.1 Sun Dec 26 18:12:13 2010 (r216717)
@@ -141,10 +141,7 @@ utility can create and manage an archive
.Xr ar 5 )
used to speed up link editing operations.
If a symbol table is present in an archive, it will be
-kept up-to-date by subsequent operations on the archive (excepting
-the quick update specified by the
-.Fl q
-option).
+kept up-to-date by subsequent operations on the archive.
.Pp
The
.Nm ranlib
@@ -254,16 +251,11 @@ Append the files specified by arguments
.Ar
to the archive specified by argument
.Ar archive
-without checking if the files already exist in the archive and
-without updating the archive's symbol table.
-If the archive file
+without checking if the files already exist in the archive.
+The archive symbol table will be updated as needed.
+If the file specified by the argument
.Ar archive
-does not already exist, a new archive is created.
-However, to be compatible with GNU
-.Nm ,
-option
-.Fl q
-will update the archive's symbol table.
+does not already exist, a new archive will be created.
.It Fl r
Replace (add) the files specified by arguments
.Ar