Re: Updating FreeBSD port

[Eric Blake]

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According to Mikhail Teterin on 9/21/2006 12:48 PM:
> середа 20 вересень 2006 21:24, Eric Blake написав:
>> Yes.  This program demonstrates why the m4 testsuite fails when compiled
>> with a BSD-flavored getopt_long:
> 
> You mean, `gmake check'? That did not fail here, when I built it with the 
> BSD's getopt_long...

Of course it didn't, because the m4 1.4.6 testsuite is not complete and
doesn't exercise this functionality.  I did, however, check into CVS head
a patch that would fail if you ran 'make check' with BSD semantics of
getopt_long.  Also, try using 'make', not 'gmake' - m4 is one of the GNU
projects that would like to be portable to more than just GNU make, and
any failures encountered with BSD make are worth trying to fix.

> 
> This program is calling getopt(), not the getopt_long(), that gm4 uses. Is 
> there a similar difference between GNU and BSD getopt_long() implementations?

It shouldn't be too hard to modify the example to find out for sure...

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