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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:48:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Glenn Fowler <gsf AT research DOT att DOT com>
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Subject: Re: getopt_long behavior


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 <gsf AT research DOT att DOT com> AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ --


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