Re: argp spec

[Niels Möller]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Keith Simmons <address@hidden> writes:
> > In your earlier message, you mentioned that some folks at GNU were
> > interested in making a standalone, portable version of argp.  Do you
> > think there is any interest in argp ported to solaris?
> 
> I think it's already been ported to Solaris by the `lsh' project,
> though those changes haven't been merged back into glibc.

Right. My version can be found either as a part of lsh
(http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-1.4.tar.gz, the src/argp
subdirectory), or as a standalone package,
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/misc/argp-standalone-1.1.tar.gz (the
code in lsh may be slightly newer).

It works fine on Solaris (although I usually use gcc, I haven't tried
compiling it with Sun's cc recently).

This version have also been hacked so that it doesn't depend on
getopt, and should thus be reentrant.

> My thought is that the best thing to do is something similar to the way
> the GNU glob code is handled -- keep the standard sources in glibc, but
> add more autoconf stuff so that with an appropriate makefile etc. a
> standalone distribution can be made.

Or GNU getopt, although argp of course is a bit larger.

Regards,
/Niels