Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: getopt and Solaris 10

[Derek Price]

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Karl Berry wrote:

> GNU getopt tries to do too much when it reorders the commandline and
> therefor needs the "+" as a workaround.
>
>I don't suppose it matters at this point, but I fail to see the
>connection here. You can tell GNU getopt to REQUIRE_ORDER instead of
>PERMUTE without using +, either directly or setting POSIXLY_CORRECT in
>various ways.


I'd rather not control a function I'm calling by messing with
environment variables, especially those that may have other side effects.

> See the __ordering enum in getopt_int.h, for example.
>(Seems like you probably already know this, so maybe it's unsuitable
>somehow, if so, sorry for the noise.)


It doesn't look to me like there is an easy way to set this from a
caller of getopt().

>Also, I don't agree that it is "doing too much" to have PERMUTE be the
>default for GNU. It is very useful for most programs. cvs has
>exceptional command-line parsing needs.


True.

Cheers,

Derek
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