From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "B. James Phillippe" <bryan@terran.org>
Cc: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>, egcs Mailing List <egcs@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [980425] makeinfo errors
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vyz67jr3dp3.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980429151345.23091A-100000@earth.terran.org>
B James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org> writes:
|> 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.
POSIX does not allow options to occur after non-options. If you put
POSIXLY_CORRECT into the environment then getopt follows POSIX.
--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-30 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-28 22:14 B. James Phillippe
1998-04-29 15:13 ` Jim Wilson
1998-04-29 18:36 ` B. James Phillippe
1998-04-30 1:40 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
1998-04-30 20:03 ` Jim Wilson
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