Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
"David O'Brien" wrote: >It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point >".PATH:" to the newest src file we have in the tree. ... >(I am considering something simular with libiberty and libbfd) This approach sounds nice, but there may be some gotchas: I have previously t

Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 26 May 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point > > ".PATH:" to the newest src file we have in the tree. If some package > > gets updated and there is a newer GNUgetopt(), then we change the > > ".PATH:". JDP suggested this

Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-26 Thread W Gerald Hicks
> It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point > ".PATH:" to the newest src file we have in the tree. If some package > gets updated and there is a newer GNUgetopt(), then we change the > ".PATH:". JDP suggested this is a cleaner way than extracting part of a > GNU pac

Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-26 Thread David O'Brien
> All of the programs listed, except cvs, were not under contrib. They will be on the next upgrade. :-) > I was thinking of factoring out gnugetopt into a libgnugetopt under > contrib It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point ".PATH:" to the newest src file we h

Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990525224157.d4...@nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : for src/contrib/ we try not to dink too much with the code. Otherwise : the maintance can get heavy. Right, however in the past things like libreadline have been "culled" from the various places that have it into its own place.

Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-25 Thread David O'Brien
> Is there any reason to have getopt.c replicated in so many different > programs: > cvs, grep, gzip, patch, ptx, sort, tar > and maybe a few others that I missed... for src/contrib/ we try not to dink too much with the code. Otherwise the maintance can get heavy. -- -- David(obr...@

getopt.c in gnu/*/*

1999-05-23 Thread Warner Losh
Is there any reason to have getopt.c replicated in so many different programs: cvs, grep, gzip, patch, ptx, sort, tar and maybe a few others that I missed... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message