[postgis-devel] getopt.h

[Paul Ramsey]

I tested solaris after switching to system getopt, and it worked fine,
so who knows, the original issue has vanished in the sands of time.

P

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> Don't want to get into a reversion war here... I want to remove the
>> getopt custom junk in loader. I know I broke MinGW, but the solution
>> isn't to add pgis_getopt back in, it's to find a system getopt for
>> MinGW, and it turns out there is one, you just have to test for
>> HAVE_UNISTD and if it isn't there, include <getopt.h> and minGW works
>> fine.
>>
>> The old getopt stuff dates back to almost the beginning of PostGIS,
>> when Dave dumped it in there rather than figure out an incompatibility
>> between the Solaris getopt and the linux getopt. So when I ripped it
>> out, I tested on Solaris and everything worked fine.
>>
>> P.
>
> If we don't care about broken Solaris anymore, I think the correct way to do
> this would be to create a directory full of functions that may not be
> available on every platform, and then use autoconf's AC_LIBOBJ and friends
> so that all the magic happens behind the scenes.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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