Re: ed package
getopt is in libiberty. It's also in glibc, and people have a bad habit of not
checking for that in configure. I'm thinking about packaging libiberty, and
making patches to check for getopt there. Might be easier to deal with than
fifty separate versions across fifty source packages...
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:55:29AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:30:51AM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > ed package (binary) is at
> > http://www.pick.ucam.org/~matthew/netbsd/ed_0.2-19_netbsd-i386.deb
> >
> > md5sum is 0d08768459c589722584903fc658fa0c
> >
> > The package is of course unsigned, but this mail is signed :)
>
> FYI - there are two bugs filed against ed which are of interest. The second
> one (the option bug) is not exactly critical, but I'd dearly love some help
> hunting down more info for the maintainer. I *think* it's happening because
> of a difference in GNU libc getopt() vs. the internal replacement that ed
> has (and that possibly linking the getopt library would fix it - is this
> libiberty? I always forget...)
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