Re: ed package
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:13:40PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 utsl@quic.net wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > Also a BSD-licensed getopt (and getopt_long) is available in the NetBSD
> > libc.
>
> But behaves differently to GNU getopt_long, as regards its handling of
> the arguments '-' and '--'
>
>
> it does? this sounds like a bug. it should be compatible.
It does. It is a bug, and the 'ed' package fails it's tests because of it.
(That it compiles is due to the fact that it fails to recognize that it
fails...)
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