[BusyBox] What happened to --long-options?

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Wed Jan 19 09:31:45 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 19 January 2005 OO:55, Rob Landley wrote:
> Okay, I remember there being a menuconfig option to enable/disable 
> --long-option support, but I can't find it in menuconfig of a current cvs 
> snapshot.  I mention this because I tried to use "mount --move" in a busybox 
> build yesterday, and it didn't recognize it.  A quick glance at the source 
> code shows the table of long options being defined, but I can't see where 
> it's ever being used...
> 
> Quite possibly I never understood how the long option parsing worked in the 
> first place.  (After "get complementally", I've pretty much stayed away from 
> that part of the code...)
Hi, 
there is a patch pending to improve the explanation
oh how getopt_ulflags works.
Maybe you can take a look at it.

Ciao,
Tito
> But I'd rather like to make this work, and the default assumption is that I'm 
> doing something wrong.
> 
> Any clues?  This works for everybody else, I take it?
> 
> Rob
> 



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