|
Message-ID: <20140726091236.GA6011@euler> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:12:36 +0200 From: Felix Janda <felix.janda@...teo.de> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: More GNU semantics for getopt_long? I have had two problems with the fact that musl's getopt_long() does not behave as applications expect. No argument reordering: musl's getopt_long() behaves similarly to POSIX getopt() and therefore stops after the first non-option argument. This for example makes the utilities widl and wrc from wine when compiled with musl libc behave differently than for everyone else. In particular, this breaks the (git) wine build itself, since its generated Makefiles call widl with mixed option and non-option arguments. Should wine use a (runtime) config test detecting whether getopt_long() does argument reordering and use its internal copy of getopt_long() if not? Should the Makefile generation be carefully rewritten such that non-options are given last? It seems difficult to upstream any of these. The config test seems like a test specific to exclude musl and the second is likely to break in the future and who knows what scripts might depend on the argument reordering of widl. No abbreviations: musl's getopt_long() does not support abbreviation of long options. Ironically this breaks util-linux' (or busybox') getopt(1) itself. Most scripts use "getopt --long" instead of "getopt --longoptions" (likely because getopt includes an example script using "getopt --long"). I noticed this on my gentoo system when glib would fail at configure because /etc/xml/catalog was empty because the gentoo specific script build-docbook-catalog was broken because it used "getopt --long". I noticed that there is a patch from Michael Forney on the mailing list implementing the abbreviated options but there were not any comments on it. These problems make me question the usefulness of musl having getopt_long() at all in its current form. There is no way to know which programs depend on the GNU getopt_long() behavior. Furthermore, musl seems to have the only implementation behaving differently. Felix
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.