[PATCH rendercheck 2/2] Remove getopt-based argument parsing. (bug 6611)

[Jesse Adkins]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Jesse Adkins wrote:
>>
>>> Solaris 9 doesn't have getopt.
>>
>> it has getopt, but doesn't have the nonstandard getopt.h
>
> If I remember correctly, it also doesn't have long option support
> (getopt_long), only traditional getopt.   (And a quick grep of the
> headers seems to confirm that.)
>
> On the other hand, Solaris 9 doesn't really have a working render
> implementation, and it's from 2002, so no one is going to be
> putting one there, so I'm tempted to say it's not worth
> complicating the code for everyone else.
I wasn't aware that Solaris 9 was that far back. I should have looked
given the age of the bug. Since it's so old, should I just close the
bug and the patches get ignored?
>
> If anyone really needed it, would probably be better to use the
> gnulib getopt_long than open coding it.
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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