Re: [tim-4] Use basename (program_name) in messages

[Tim Van Holder]

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 10:40, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> | I think this requires adding basename.c to lib/ for
> | systems that don't have it.
> 
> it does, see my previous reply.
> 
> Your patch goes against the unspoken standards.  Bison is correct to
> expand its full path if the invocation was qualified.

I know; the problem is that on DOSish systems, argv0 is ALWAYS fully
qualified, leading to VERY ugly messages (esp. with LFNs in the path, as
argv0 contains an SFN path).
For example, if bison.exe is in d:/development/djgpp-cvs/bin/bison.exe,
you get:

Usage: d:\develo~1\djgpp~1\bin\bison.exe [...]

I'm assuming this is why IIRC binutils does call basename() on 
program_name.

But since that's a system-specific problem, these changes will probably
have to stay in my local patches for the DJGPP package.  No biggie.