Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/29/20:45:36
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.
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