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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reorder msgfmt command-line arguments.
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:05:50 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031805310.27959@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071203170402.GA13712@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:35:33AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > 
> > > Any program using getopt or getopt_long will stop processing options 
> > > once a non-option argument has been encountered, if POSIXLY_CORRECT 
> > > is set.
> > 
> > So have you tested that msgfmt indeed does not work with the present 
> > command line?
> 
> Yes.  I run with POSIXLY_CORRECT set to 1, and it does indeed break.  I 
> wouldn't have fixed it if it had worked.

Ah, so it is a not-so-common breakage.

Thanks for clarifying,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-03  1:26 [PATCH] Reorder msgfmt command-line arguments brian m. carlson
2007-12-03 10:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 17:04   ` brian m. carlson
2007-12-03 18:05     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-12-04  2:07     ` Shawn O. Pearce

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