Date: 20 Jul 1999 20:54:51 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc Message-ID: <863dyihims.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:02:36 -0600" References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191452050.14185-100000@abraham.chaosdev.org> <199907191602.KAA79798@harmony.village.org>
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>> I know it isn't standard. But it works well, and is used by a lot of >> programs. Perhaps it should have been put in another library than libc, >> though. Actually, I'd better suggest this to the GNU people right ahead. > There has been talking of having a libgnu.a to contain common > routines like the long getopt... Many of these common GNU routines (including getopt_long) are in liberty. That's what it was made for. It's fallen out of maintainence, but I recall somebody making noises a month or two ago about reviving it. joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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