But isn't a bit stupid to build three different binaries with almost nothing different ? What about using aliases ?
I don't know why the authors of GNU Coding standards do not want a binary with different names, but in fact using this mechanism or tunneling it into a shell would be much better than three almost identically binaries! Nico Paul Eggert wrote: > > From: Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 00:37:43 +0200 > > > > I don't understand why we build up three binaries instead of one. > > The GNU Coding standards say that program behavior shouldn't depend on > program name. See the first sentence of the section entitled > "Standards for Interfaces Generally". _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
