From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 26 21: 2:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BAA1507B for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 21:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40355>; Thu, 27 May 1999 13:46:05 +1000 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:01:48 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/* To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: obrien@NUXI.com Message-Id: <99May27.134605est.40355@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" wrote: >It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point >".PATH:" to the newest src file we have in the tree. ... >(I am considering something simular with libiberty and libbfd) This approach sounds nice, but there may be some gotchas: I have previously tried to share a common libbfd between gdb and binutils via a collection of directory symlinks and spent several days trying to work out why the resulting gdb. I eventually found that libbfd and gdb had included different versions of the same include file - and therefore defined the same structure differently (courtesy of some relative include paths). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message