Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: getopt and Solaris 10

[Matthias Kurz]

On Tue, May 10, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:

> On Mon, May 09, 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
[...]
> > But I still don't get why the change is needed.  It sounds like you're
> > assuming Solaris 11 getopt might get fixed?  But even in that case,
> > the current code will work, right, since it will use GNU getopt?  So
> > this is just an optimization for the hypothetical case if Solaris 11
> > getopt gets fixed?  In that case perhaps we should wait for Solaris 11
> > and test it before installing this patch, as it's more likely to cause
> > a bug than to fix one.
> 
> Well, it might still fail on other OSes, that also do not use GNU getopt.
> They do probably also not have the getopt_clip. I'll check this on IRIX,
> today.

The "vanilla" cvs-1.12.12 builds on irix and seems to run. The included
GNU getopt is used. There is a getopt.h, but no getopt_long_only. Thought,
Derek's test for "-+" would be necessary, but that's not the case. I do not
have autoconf and automake, there, so i cannot test the various patches. 
I'm running out of time. I have to quit. Thanks very much for your effords.
When there is something to test, i'll still try to help.


   (mk)

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