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Date:	Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:50:36 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Missing getopt.h for MinGW is not a bug.

From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

I'm not sure why Yahoo hasn't delivered the personal main but ...

 > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:58, Earnie Boyd wrote:
 > > We purposefully do not give GPLed interfaces to the MinGW user
 > > community, even though we do supply the libraries for those who are
 > > aware of the GPL issues.  You'll have to supply your own declarations
 > > for getopt.
 >
 > There are BSD getopt's floating around, why not use one of those?

It's on the round tuit list to provide a GPL free libiberty which should 
contain such an object as this BSD getopt.

Earnie.


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