Re: getopt broken

[Eric Blake]

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According to Sergey Poznyakoff on 9/26/2009 3:24 PM:
> The reason is that the declarations of getopt_long and getopt_long_r
> both use __getopt_argv_const, which is normally defined in getopt.h.
> However, if the system already has getopt.h, it gets included and
> further contents of the gnulib's getopt.h is ignored.
> 
> Attempts to define __getopt_argv_const in getopt1.c won't fix the bug,
> since it is not known whether to define it to empty string or to const
> (see comment at getopt.in.h:39). Actually, it is impossible to include
> system's getopt.h and to ensure its declarations of getopt_long (et al.)
> match those in gnulib's getopt1.c.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix it?

Sounds like we need to follow the pattern of other replacement headers,
and use #if @REPLACE_GETOPT@ rather than #ifdef __GETOPT_PREFIX
everywhere.  I'll see what I can do.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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