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

[Christian Franke]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Will argp_parse() be a pre-requisite for building GRUB2 or will 
argp-standalone be included (some other projects do) ?

If you really want argp, why is it used only for the few trivial options 
of grub-emu ? The other utils still use getopt_long().
grub-emu does not benefit much from argp, but introduces another 
portability issue.

Christian