Re: getopt configure check fails in linux

[Lorenzo Bettini]

On 09/06/2010 11:30 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> > checking for working GNU getopt function... no
> >
> > it looks kind of strange that getopt test fails under GNU Linux...
> >
> > (indeed, this way, the gnulib version of getopt is used, instead of GNU
> > libc version)
>
> If you want to know why: The fixes that each gnulib module brings are
> documented at<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/>. In particular,
> for the 'getopt' function, we document this:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/getopt.html>
> And yes, there is also one bug that affects glibc<= 2.11, in this list.
>
> For reference, the glibc bugs are here:
>    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11039
>    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11040
>    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11041
>
> Bruno

Thus, since I'm using glibc 2.11.1 the gnulib version of getopt fixes 
the problem right?

cheers
        Lorenzo

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