Subject: Re: getopt_long behavior
From: Glenn Fowler <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:48:32 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:39:20 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> No, it wouldn't suggest that at all.  Did you try the grep that I
> suggested?  getopt isn't exported from cygwin1.dll.  It only lives in
> libcygwin.a.

> I don't know why the original designers of cygwin decided to do things
> this way but it has been this way forever.

getopt() is probably in a .a to get the global optarg etc. variables
to link properly

-- Glenn Fowler <[email-masked]> AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ --

--
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/