From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab To: "B. James Phillippe" Cc: Jim Wilson , egcs Mailing List Subject: Re: [980425] makeinfo errors Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:40:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg01179.html B James Phillippe 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