Re: issue with getopt

[Eric Blake]

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According to Lorenzo Bettini on 12/10/2006 10:42 AM:
> Hi
> 
> I've imported getopt from gnulib.
> 
> Now when I run configure && make under linux everything works fine:
> configure detects getopt and does not compile getopt.c and getopt1.c nor
> it includes it in libgnu.a.
> 
> when I run the same under windows using cygwin, configure detects getopt:

The cygwin version of getopt is buggy because it inherited from an older
BSD code base.  It does not handle all getopt constructs in the way that
GNU utilities expect.  For example, when parsing an option that takes an
optional argument, cygwin's getopt fails to set optarg to NULL when the
option appears alone.  Therefore, it must be replaced by a working version
when used by GNU utilities that expect certain behavior.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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