[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg : switch from getopt to getopts builtin

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Actually FreeBSD and NetBSD have in their port tree "getopt", which is
>> this one: http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/
>> as you can see, is the same getopt in util-linux;
>> in OpenBSD's tree is called gnugetopt, but it's still the same software.
>> In Mac OS X it can be installed with macports, and it's called "getopt".
>>
>
> Now I am confused. Do they all include a getopt in their base system,
> for example as /bin/getopt , and then external getopt which install as
> /usr/bin/getopt or something?
> The binary name is getopt on all except on openbsd where it is
> gnugetopt? Or were you just talking about the package / port name?
>
> In any cases, this is very interesting, are you able to check it to be
> sure it works? Or anyone else?

Yeah, I'm confused as well, wow. I didn't know it was this complex of
a situation.

I would love to see the following:
1. Where does getopt definitely work and definitely not work "out of the box"?
2. Where is (GNU) getopt available if it is installed?

At first I was convinced we shouldn't use it, but now not so much.

-Dan