Subject: Re: The State of Tinderbox
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 14:17:51 CDT
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> I think that the problem is caused by wv including its own version of
> getopt() (it does this with a couple of string functions too). About 10
> lines into wv/wv.h, wv declares its own version of getopt with a different
> prototype than what your system probably has.
>
> I vote that we take out the getopt from wv/wv.h and also remove getopt.c
> from wv/Makefile.abi. This isn't the first time wv's getopt has screwed
> things up (remember the libole2 changeover breakages caused by getopt?), and
> since the version of wv we build will never use it, I don't see the harm.
>
>
This is an excellent idea. Taking out potentially dangerous code that
does things we already have code to do is only likely to improve our build
quality. Patches willingly accpted.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam
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