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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:50:47 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org, chris@calldei.com
Subject:   Re: stpcpy()
Message-ID:  <19991031185047.S64452@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910311042310.54954-100000@green.myip.org>
References:  <XFMail.991031164359.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910311042310.54954-100000@green.myip.org>

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-On [19991031 18:11], Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green@freebsd.org) wrote:
>On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
>> Well if you have a port which has this stuff in it (stpcpy, getopt, etc) then
>> where's the problem? If you are building by hand adding -I/usr/local/include
>> and -lcompatlinux to your makefile is easy, and if its a port its transparent
>> to the end user.
>
>I think this is the best idea proposed so far, just to chime in and be
>counted.  It makes it easy for ports to provide this compatibilty, and
>that's what's important.

Couldn't agree more.

We already have libgnugetopt in the ports, it would be easy to extend it
to become compatlinux.

On an aside, including getopt.h and unistd.h in one file is fun.  Will
look into this and fix up the port.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.




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