[vox-tech] writing free getopt, ran into a dilemma...

[Mark K. Kim]

The one I tried to link statically on Windows one time said it was GPL,
but according to Micah it's apparently LGPL with misdocumentation. :P

The reason I'm writing my own getopt is because I want static linkage.
Anyway, some options I'm thinking about:

   1. Get rid of optind altogether.
   2. Shuffle argv[] like LGPL getopt.
   3. Set optind to the beginning of the last set of non-option arguments.
   4. Set optind to the beginning of the first non-option argument.

I really don't want to shuffle argv[] (option #2)  because I can see how a
non-shuffling getopt could be useful on systems that won't let you shuffle
argv[].  Options #3 and #4 are direct opposites of each other, and each
can be beneficial at different times.  While #3 seems to make more sense
to me, it's nothing you can't handle by using the "-" option in "optstr".
And while #4 seems to make little sense, it can be useful if you're trying
to determine if there are any non-option arguments and throw an error,
which you can't do any other way that I can think of.

-Mark


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, nbs wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:35:05AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > Keywords: getopt, license issues, GPL, BSD, optind
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I mentioned some months ago about how I was using GPL's "getopt" library
> > in one of my company programs, and I was wondering about the GPL
> > distribution issues.[1]
>
> Woah... getopt library is GPL, not LGPL?
>
> -bill!
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