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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:19:23 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: getopt_long behavior
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0500, Chris Morgan wrote:
> 
>>I orginally posted this message some time ago.  Having all of
>>the cygwin tools lacking the ability to accept arguments in
>>arbirtary order makes it more difficult to use them(I often do
>>grep "string" *.c and then rerun with -i at the end).  Is
>>there anyway to get around this without recompiling the whole
>>cygwin suite from source code?
> 
> 
> No.

Not entirely correct, Chris.  One may simply link a static copy of the 
[getopt.c  getopt.h  getopt1.c] files to the desired executable.  That's 
what I did with the gettext library, because gettext's selftests depend 
on non-POSIXLY-correct commandlines (and reordering the tests wouldn't 
have worked).

So, if you want a "foo.exe" that allows argument re-ordering, rebuild 
foo and add getopt.o & getopt1.o to the link command.  Or build a 
**static** library "libmygetopt" from those two .o's, and use 
-lmygetopt.  And no recompiling of the cygwin kernel needed.

--Chuck





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