getopt_long behavior
Glenn Fowler
gsf@research.att.com
Thu Jan 30 12:48:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:39:20 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> No, it wouldn't suggest that at all. Did you try the grep that I
> suggested? getopt isn't exported from cygwin1.dll. It only lives in
> libcygwin.a.
> I don't know why the original designers of cygwin decided to do things
> this way but it has been this way forever.
getopt() is probably in a .a to get the global optarg etc. variables
to link properly
-- Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com> AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park NJ --
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