From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtck-0000An-Sg for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:55:58 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtci-00007u-NH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:55:56 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtcg-00007M-BQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:55:55 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtcg-00007C-4W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:55:54 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iqtcf-0005EW-Ne for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:55:54 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAAGtqOA048483 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:55:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4735CDA9.4060501@t-online.de> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:56:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4735CDA9.4060501@t-online.de> (Christian Franke's message of "Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:26:33 +0100") Message-ID: <87wssqf39h.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use getopt_long() instead of argp_parse() in grub-emu X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:55:57 -0000 Christian Franke writes: > Unlike the other GRUB2 utils, grub-emu uses the glibc extension > argp_parse(). It is unavailable on Cygwin, which might also be the > case for other platforms where glibc is not the native runtime. This has been brought up before, BSD has the same problem. The outcome of the discussion was (IIRC) that we will use argp. When argp is not available we can use gnulib or a standalone argp parser ("argp-standalone") to support this. In that case it will mean changing configure.ac. -- Marco