From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 26 1:23:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A9A15447 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 01:23:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA05738; Wed, 26 May 1999 01:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19990526012320.C5373@nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:23:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/* Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990525224157.D4843@nuxi.com> <199905232311.RAA14737@harmony.village.org> <19990525224157.D4843@nuxi.com> <199905260816.CAA00699@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199905260816.CAA00699@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:16:35AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > All of the programs listed, except cvs, were not under contrib. They will be on the next upgrade. :-) > I was thinking of factoring out gnugetopt into a libgnugetopt under > contrib It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point ".PATH:" to the newest src file we have in the tree. If some package gets updated and there is a newer GNUgetopt(), then we change the ".PATH:". JDP suggested this is a cleaner way than extracting part of a GNU package, and I have to agree with him. (I am considering something simular with libiberty and libbfd) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message