cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils Makefile.inc0

[John Birrell]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:16:19PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:10:23PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:22:47PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > OK, I see.  Removing the contrib/bintuils/include/getopt.h is the
> > > only real solution -- I've removed it locally and reverted these
> > > revisions, and it's now past that point.
> > > 
> > > David, remove the damn header please.
> 
> BTW, ask maintainer I do still have the option of NOT using the
> getopt_long from libc and just sticking with the GNU supplied one.

I think we should just use the version distributed by the FSF. The only
reason to changing things locally is if there would be some improvement.
That isn't the case here.

FWIW, ache has done lots of commits related to getopt since I reported
the problem I was seeing. He attributed the problem to the POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable which accounts for why most people didn't get bitten.

-- 
John Birrell