Re: [ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw

[Andreas M. <an...@rh...>]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:15:17PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> [...]
> > > 4. add -liberty to the makefile for wrc and wmc. This is
> > > needed because of getopt and optarg
> >
> > Cygwin has a BSD licenced getopt.c that doesn't need libiberty to link,
> > only mingw (AFAIK). Anyway worth investigating?
> 
>    I usually regard getopt functions as higly unportable and always try
> to avoid them. I did not check how they are used in wrc&co, but it
> should not be very difficult to do entirely without them. I believe that
> would be the best solution.
Yep, probably, given getopt()s slightly dainbramaged way of handling commands
with or without spacing.
It's only sooo often a major annoyance !
(witness e.g. the current wineinstall "su" mess)

But OTOH command line handling/spacing issues are a difficult thing,
so maybe it's not even getopt that's to blame, because it's difficult
per se.

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