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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reorder msgfmt command-line arguments.
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:05:50 +0000 (GMT)
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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