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Re: argp?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:34:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: argp?
- References: <f1vd77tap2lrk82fgu5ke7q6pnavlcfpmu@4ax.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:43:45AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>I'd like to use argp[1] in a Cygwin program, but I see that it's not
>implemented in Cygwin. The catgets and cpio packages have apparently
>imported it statically into their source, and advice on the net is to
>import their implementations.
>
>Is there a particular reason that argp isn't available in Cygwin, or has it
>just never been important enough for someone to bring it in? Would people
>be receptive to having it available as a separate package, say libargp?
>
>[1] http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Argp.html
Looks like this would have to be implemented from scratch since LGPLed code
is not allowed in Cygwin. The argp implementation in newlib apparently is
just a copy of the glibc code.
I was going to just pull in any *bsd version of this that I could find but
I don't see a non LGPLed version in freebsd, netbsd, or openbsd.
So: PTC.
cgf
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