From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 20 18:55:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5796415476 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-118.camalott.com [208.229.74.118]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00473; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:06:34 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA56998; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:54:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) To: Warner Losh Cc: Per Lundberg , Alex Zepeda , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc References: <199907191602.KAA79798@harmony.village.org> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 20 Jul 1999 20:54:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:02:36 -0600" Message-ID: <863dyihims.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I know it isn't standard. But it works well, and is used by a lot of >> programs. Perhaps it should have been put in another library than libc, >> though. Actually, I'd better suggest this to the GNU people right ahead. > There has been talking of having a libgnu.a to contain common > routines like the long getopt... Many of these common GNU routines (including getopt_long) are in liberty. That's what it was made for. It's fallen out of maintainence, but I recall somebody making noises a month or two ago about reviving it. joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message