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

[Derek Price]

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Matthias Kurz wrote:

>I do not think that this is a Solaris _bug_.


- From the point of view of the GNULIB getopt.m4 tests, if it doesn't
behave like GNU getopt, that is a bug.  :)

>I'd bet that every system that does not use GNU getopt will suffer from
>this problem. I don't know how many of them have a getopt.h, which
>"triggers" the problem.


Well, yes, in a sense, but the tests in m4/getopt.m4 had already
eliminated all systems which don't declare a getopt_long() in favor of
the included getopt.c file from GNULIB, assuming that if getopt_long()
was declared then we could expect GNU getopt() semantics as well. 
getopt_long() is a GNU extension and not part of any standard that I
know of.

Unfortunately, in the sense that it broke the existing GNULIB getopt.m4
tests, the Solaris folks decided they liked the getopt_long() function
and imported it, without updating their getopt() to match, thereby
breaking the assumption getopt.m4 had been making thus far.

>>Matthias, would you mind testing this version out? If you could send me
>>your config.log when you are done building, that would be helpful as well.
>
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>Yes, i'm going to test this asap.


Thanks.

Cheers,

Derek
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