From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 6:56:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB1114D04 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip194.houston3.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.12.169.194]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4F037073; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:53:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA15853; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:54:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:54:32 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc Message-ID: <19990719085432.B15178@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <19990719080712.A15178@holly.dyndns.org> <37932C30.3F0CAC3C@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <37932C30.3F0CAC3C@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:46:24PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 19, 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Chris Costello wrote: > > > > What is the point of using GNU-getopt over the standard > > getopt other than --foo-bar flags that everyone I know hates? > > Hi, I'm Daniel. Pleased to meet you. Now you know someone who > doesn't hate it. Good morning, Daniel! As someone more helpful than myself in this thread has already pointed out, it seems, there is a port for the GNU getopt, known as 'libgnugetopt'. I would imagine this would help the thread's originator in porting the GNU utilities to FreeBSD. -- |Chris Costello |Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. `------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message