Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:34:47AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> 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?
Yes. > getopt isn't exported from cygwin1.dll. It only lives in > libcygwin.a. I noticed. This does not invalidate the proposal "do something at link time to force POSIXLY_CORRECT if necessary for this app". > I don't know why the original designers of cygwin decided to do things > this way but it has been this way forever. Not necessarily an argument against change ;-) Max. -- 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/
