On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:34:47AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:45:06PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> would you accept a patch making getopt respond to a >>> "POSIXLY_INCORRECT_GETOPT" envvar? >> >> I'll make the change but it won't have the effect you think it will. >> I guarantee it. I will even make a snapshot and then you can watch >> in horror and amazement as setting the environment variable has no >> effect. >> >> And for an answer to the riddle of why this won't immediately do what >> you want, try this in the winsup/cygwin directory: >> >> grep -i getopt cygwin.din >> >> (Remember not to put the -i at the end!) > >Ah. This suggests that the ideal fix would be to have alternate object >files for getopt, such that programs which really can't cope with >getopt's reordering can surpress it at link time - something along the >lines of automode.o, textmode.o, etc.
No, it wouldn't suggest that at all. Did you try the grep that I suggested? getopt isn't exported from cygwin1.dll. It only lives in libcygwin.a. I don't know why the original designers of cygwin decided to do things this way but it has been this way forever. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
