getopt output reordering (was: xmlto package install question)
Talking to Tim Waugh, the author of xmlto, revealed that the order of arguments doesn't matter on his system (that's Red Hat, I guess), whereas it matters indeed on Cygwin. Investigating it a bit further revealed that Cygwin's getopt differs from what he expected: getopt -- o: xmlto -o foo bar should output this: -o 'foo' -- 'xmlto' 'bar' Cygwin's getopt outputs like this: $ getopt -- o: xmlto -o foo bar -- 'xmlto' '-o' 'foo' 'bar' Checking the archive I found a thread from back in January talking about the inability of Cygwin's getopt to do reordering of arguments. I guess we're facing here the same issue: the option arguments are not output before the non-option arguments. Was any work done wrt this issue? Is anything planned? Tim is going to update the xmlto usage information to reflect the proper order of arguments. Patrick Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: usage: xmlto FORMAT [OPTION]... XML OPTIONs are: -v verbose output (-vv for very verbose) -x stylesheet use the specified stylesheet instead of choosing one -m fragment use the XSL fragment to customize the stylesheet -o directoryput output in the specified directory instead of the current working directory It only works if you swap 'FORMAT [OPTIONS]' to '[OPTIONS] FORMAT' which is what I found in the patch included in the source package. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: getopt output reordering (was: xmlto package install question)
Patrick Eisenacher wrote: Talking to Tim Waugh, the author of xmlto, revealed that the order of arguments doesn't matter on his system (that's Red Hat, I guess), whereas it matters indeed on Cygwin. Investigating it a bit further revealed that Cygwin's getopt differs from what he expected: getopt -- o: xmlto -o foo bar should output this: -o 'foo' -- 'xmlto' 'bar' Cygwin's getopt outputs like this: $ getopt -- o: xmlto -o foo bar -- 'xmlto' '-o' 'foo' 'bar' Checking the archive I found a thread from back in January talking about the inability of Cygwin's getopt to do reordering of arguments. I guess we're facing here the same issue: the option arguments are not output before the non-option arguments. Was any work done wrt this issue? Is anything planned? IIRC, the end result of the discussion was that no consensus could be reached on whether it was better to reorder or not to reorder, so CGF had to make a ruling, and he ruled not to reorder. Reordering can be enabled by setting POSIXLY_INCORRECT_GETOPT in the environment, but because getopt is statically linked, this only works for programs rebuilt since this change was made, and many haven't been yet. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
