getopts missing with latest cygwin

[DJ Delorie]

> Worse than useless :-)

Sigh, I guess I'm just going to have to respond with hard proof, since
everyone who's saying "it can't work!" never bothered to find out what
that kind of program really does.

The purpose of getopt(1) is to accept all the POSIX.1-allowed
conventions, and convert them to something trivial to parse in a
simple shell context.  Of course it can't set environment variables in
it's parent's space; *nothing* can do that.  It's isn't a
100%-compatible-with-builtin replacement.

This example is from Linux's /usr/lib/getopt/parse.bash:

#!/bin/bash

# A small example program for using the new getopt(1) program.
# This program will only work with bash(1)
# An similar program using the tcsh(1) script language can be found
# as parse.tcsh

# Example input and output (from the bash prompt):
# ./parse.bash -a par1 'another arg' --c-long 'wow!*\?' -cmore -b " very long "
# Option a
# Option c, no argument
# Option c, argument `more'
# Option b, argument ` very long '
# Remaining arguments:
# --> `par1'
# --> `another arg'
# --> `wow!*\?'

# Note that we use `"$@"' to let each command-line parameter expand to a 
# separate word. The quotes around `$@' are essential!
# We need TEMP as the `eval set --' would nuke the return value of getopt.
TEMP=`getopt -o ab:c:: --long a-long,b-long:,c-long:: \
     -n 'example.bash' -- "$@"`

if [ $? != 0 ] ; then echo "Terminating..." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi

# Note the quotes around `$TEMP': they are essential!
eval set -- "$TEMP"

while true ; do
	case "$1" in
		-a|--a-long) echo "Option a" ; shift ;;
		-b|--b-long) echo "Option b, argument \`$2'" ; shift 2 ;;
		-c|--c-long) 
			# c has an optional argument. As we are in quoted mode,
			# an empty parameter will be generated if its optional
			# argument is not found.
			case "$2" in
				"") echo "Option c, no argument"; shift 2 ;;
				*)  echo "Option c, argument \`$2'" ; shift 2 ;;
			esac ;;
		--) shift ; break ;;
		*) echo "Internal error!" ; exit 1 ;;
	esac
done
echo "Remaining arguments:"
for arg do echo '--> '"\`$arg'" ; done

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