Re: [Smartmontools-support]Re: Some mods to proposed short/long options

[Peter C. <pca...@ma...>]

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 14:31 Europe/Dublin, Bruce Allen wrote:

Hi,

> I've taken a quick look at:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/no_getopt_long.txt
> where it says (about getopt_long()):
>
>   "This function is typically part of the standard C library, but some
>   libraries may not include it. But this is not a problem: we provide C
>   files that actually implement getopt_long function: getopt.c 
> getopt1.c
>   and getopt.h."
>
> If all we would need to do is to include two .c and one .h files,

That's exactly what I'd done; pulled the 3 files above from the GNU 
repository (gengetopt) and linked them in. Built on Darwin with zero 
changes, too! :-)

>  AND you
> agree that we'll ditch the files once darwin's libc gets getopt_long()
> added,

Certainly. In parallel, I'll lobby the Darwin folks to have it added 
soon ....

Pete C