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Re: getopt_long behavior


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0500, Chris Morgan wrote:
>I orginally posted this message some time ago.  Having all of
>the cygwin tools lacking the ability to accept arguments in
>arbirtary order makes it more difficult to use them(I often do
>grep "string" *.c and then rerun with -i at the end).  Is
>there anyway to get around this without recompiling the whole
>cygwin suite from source code?

No.

>On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:52:01AM -0400, chrismorgan@rcn.com
>wrote:
>>I noticed that getopt() and getopt_long() aren't doing reordering of
>>argv entries.  Searching the cygwin-developers mailing list I found
>>that this is due to compiling with POSIXLY_CORRECT set.  Is there any
>>plan to move back to not setting this variable?
>
>No.

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