Re: [PATCH]: Change gnulib-tool to support NetBSD's join

2011-04-28 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 04/27/2011 05:23 PM, J.T. Conklin wrote: For backwards compatibility, the 4.4BSD join used by NetBSD supports a "-a" option as if it was "-a 1 -a 2". Unfortunately, this was done in such a way that "-a 1" and "-a 2" need to be passed as "-a1" or "-a2". Ouch, so BSD has optional arguments in

Re: [PATCH]: Change gnulib-tool to support NetBSD's join

2011-04-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/27/2011 09:23 AM, J.T. Conklin wrote: > For backwards compatibility, the 4.4BSD join used by NetBSD supports a > "-a" option as if it was "-a 1 -a 2". Unfortunately, this was done in > such a way that "-a 1" and "-a 2" need to be passed as "-a1" or "-a2". Thanks. That's a violation of POSI

[PATCH]: Change gnulib-tool to support NetBSD's join

2011-04-27 Thread J.T. Conklin
For backwards compatibility, the 4.4BSD join used by NetBSD supports a "-a" option as if it was "-a 1 -a 2". Unfortunately, this was done in such a way that "-a 1" and "-a 2" need to be passed as "-a1" or "-a2". --- ChangeLog |5 + gnulib-tool |2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(