[Bug-gnulib] Re: getopt fix to prevent it from lying to the compiler about const

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Separating getopt into getopt and getopt_permute (or getopt_reorder)
> indeed looks like the cleanest solution. In parallel with this split,
> getopt() would become POSIX compliant again, regardless of environment
> variables.

Horray!

> I don't see the need for getopt_long_permute and getopt_long_only_permute:
> GNU "owns" these interfaces; therefore you can use 'char **' in gnulib
> and hopefully also soon in libc.

According to getopt.m4, BSD has getopt_long.  But that shouldn't stop
us from fixing it.