On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:43:45AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >I'd like to use argp[1] in a Cygwin program, but I see that it's not >implemented in Cygwin. The catgets and cpio packages have apparently >imported it statically into their source, and advice on the net is to >import their implementations. > >Is there a particular reason that argp isn't available in Cygwin, or has it >just never been important enough for someone to bring it in? Would people >be receptive to having it available as a separate package, say libargp? > >[1] http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Argp.html
Looks like this would have to be implemented from scratch since LGPLed code is not allowed in Cygwin. The argp implementation in newlib apparently is just a copy of the glibc code. I was going to just pull in any *bsd version of this that I could find but I don't see a non LGPLed version in freebsd, netbsd, or openbsd. So: PTC. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
