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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Autoconf and differences between GNU getopt and OpenBSD
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Alexander Taler |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Autoconf and differences between GNU getopt and OpenBSD getopt |
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Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:31:48 -0400 |
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
Paul> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:16:05 -0700
Paul> Alexander Taler <dissent@cvshome.org> writes:
>> Since this behaviour has shipped in OpenBSD 3.5, I guess adding a test to
>> autoconf is the correct thing to do.
Paul> I'm a little puzzled here, since you emailed your suggestion to
Paul> bug-gnulib. My impression is that gnulib's gl_GETOPT macro will detect
Paul> incompatibilities in the OpenBSD 3.5 implementation, and will refuse to
Paul> use it, so you shouldn't have this problem if you use the gnulib getopt
Paul> module. This was fixed in gnulib on August 12. If I'm wrong please
Paul> let bug-gnulib know more details about the problem.
Great! I guess all that needs to be done is bring the latest
changes over to CVS. I guess Derek will take care of that.
Alex
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