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

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Sun Mar 14 16:50:22 PST 2004


On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:28:47AM +1100, John Birrell wrote:
> 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.

Long time ago we make opposite decision to replace lots of duplicated 
getopt* code in each program with system single one. The discussion was 
somewhere near first getopt_long() commit.

> 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.

Problem with POSIXLY_CORRECT NetBSD'sm was fixed in getopt_long.c v1.5

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