On Thursday 21 September 2006 08:51, Eric Blake wrote: = Sorry, but GNU coding standards require that GNU programs use long = options, and that is already something that POSIX-specified getopt() = cannot do.
That's alright -- the BSD getopt_long implementation can. = Instead, gnulib makes it very easy, with getopt_long(), to meet both GNU = coding standards and to attempt to provide a superset of POSIX semantics When using the short options, please, stick to the POSIX-provided semantics. Finally, does m4 actually use/document the short-options usage, that's affected by the POSIX vs. GNU differences in getopt()? -mi