Re: [980425] makeinfo errors

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan@terran.org>]

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jim Wilson wrote:

> It appears that the getopt_long function call in texinfo's main function
> is failing.  It isn't recognizing -o as an option, so it tries to treat it
> as a file, and then we get a 'No such file of directory' message from perror.

Exactly.

> Perhaps the problem here is that your system compiler (gcc?, cc?) is
> miscompiling texinfo/lib/getopt1.c.  You could try compiling egcs with
> a different compiler than the one you have been using.

No, that wasn't it.  However, I did find the problem.  I happen to be one
of those very rare people who lives with the environment variable
POSIXLY_CORRECT set. :)  getopt (et al) act differently with this variable
set, and programs which use command-line arguments in a non-POSIXly
conformant fashion will probably break.  When I unset this variable, the
problem vanishes.  I will look at it closer this evening to determine
exactly what is happening.  My guess is that argument processing is
stopping early.

thanks,
-bp
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B. James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org>
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