Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: getopt: ugly linker messages Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:32:22 -0400 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <200309182018.h8IKIVWa019609@bolt.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200309182018.h8IKIVWa019609@bolt.sonic.net> Bryan Higgins wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>You can use unistd.h if you want. If you knew this already why were you >>asking the question? > > > From the gnu getopt(3) man page (mysteriously missing in cygwin): > > #include > > int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[], > const char *optstring); > > extern char *optarg; > extern int optind, opterr, optopt; > > If one does this with the latest cygwin, ugly linker messages result. > I believe you are interpreting the man page incorrectly. You should only include and not the 4 lines below that. The rest of the lines are only to show you the signature. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/