Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:11:45 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: getopt Message-ID: <199903072211.PAA27703@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990307115252.14279A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990307115252.14279A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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> We have a problem. > > 'getopt' is not included in the base tree (it's a GNU thing) and many > ports depend on it. There have been proposed solutions to fix this > (ports/8838), but none of them feel right to me. Huh? 'getopt' is part of base FreeBSD. 'man 3 getopt'. However, it doesn't support 'extended' capabilities like GNU getopt does. > Would the best solution be rolling a getopt library and then making it a > port? Should I proceed with this? Do all of these ports require the GNU version of it. > NOTE: I am not talking about /usr/src/usr.bin/getopt, I am talking about: > bash-2.01$ pwd ; ls getopt* > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/diff > getopt.c getopt.h getopt1.c See above. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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