On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:13:40PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > getopt is in libiberty. It's also in glibc, and people have a bad > > > habit of not checking for that in configure. I'm thinking about > > > packaging libiberty, and > > > > Also a BSD-licensed getopt (and getopt_long) is available in the NetBSD > > libc. > > But behaves differently to GNU getopt_long, as regards its handling of > the arguments '-' and '--' > > > it does? this sounds like a bug. it should be compatible.
It does. It is a bug, and the 'ed' package fails it's tests because of it. (That it compiles is due to the fact that it fails to recognize that it fails...) -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/

