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Re: [PATCH] Use getopt_long() instead of argp_parse() in grub-emu


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use getopt_long() instead of argp_parse() in grub-emu
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:56:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Christian Franke <address@hidden> writes:

> Unlike the other GRUB2 utils, grub-emu uses the glibc extension
> argp_parse(). It is unavailable on Cygwin, which might also be the
> case for other platforms where glibc is not the native runtime.

This has been brought up before, BSD has the same problem.  The
outcome of the discussion was (IIRC) that we will use argp.  When argp
is not available we can use gnulib or a standalone argp parser
("argp-standalone") to support this.  In that case it will mean
changing configure.ac.

--
Marco





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