Re: [Nasm-devel] [PATCH] Allow --v for version

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 01/08/2014 07:17 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:01:44PM -0700, Andy Willis wrote:
>> Long patch description:  NASM and yasm are in many respects compatible 
>> but yasm uses --v instead of -v for version.  As often --v is used for 
>> version I end up using --v initially in NASM.  This patch allows me to 
>> compile Mozilla apps which use yasm with NASM by merely renaming NASM to 
>> yasm so that the build environment does not have to be updated (Mozilla 
>> would not accept changes to allow use of NASM).  The patch is trivial 
>> and as such should not affect any other use case that I can see.
> ---
> 
> I don't see a reason why can't we. I've udated patch a bit though. Peter?

Presumably we should handle both --v and --version, but I'd prefer if we
actually implemented the second '-' as a separate case clause and did
whole string comparisons, for future use.

Even better might be to adopt getopt_long(), I think I have a
BSD-licensed implementation of getopt_long() sitting around somewhere...

	-hpa