Re: fix in --help output

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
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Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fix in --help output
Date: 2008-02-22 21:02:32
Message-ID: 47BF3868.5070405@sun.com
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Ups. Patch attached

Zdenek

Zdenek Kotala napsal(a):
> Tom Lane napsal(a):
>> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
>>> I attached patch which replaces any "--..." occurrence with "-c..."
>>> on command line.
>>
>> Please see whether forcibly using src/port/getopt.c fixes this,
>> instead. A saner patch would probably add something like this
>> to configure.in:
>>
>> if test "$PORTNAME" = "solaris"; then
>> AC_LIBOBJ(getopt)
>> AC_LIBOBJ(getopt_long)
>> fi
>
> Yeah, this is the best solution. I attach a patch. Is possible to
> backport it back to 8.3, 8.2?
>
> Just for completeness Solaris getopt function has a extension which
> processes long option argument. This extension is called CLIP. This
> implementation collides with unusual getopt usage for long option
> processing in PostgreSQL.
>
> More info are there:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2243/getopt-3c?l=en&a=view
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/gen/getopt.c
>
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/6n4hsf6e5?l=en&a=view
>
> By the way old solaris getopt version is similary with postgres
> implementation. :-)
>
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libbc/libc/gen/common/getopt.c
>
>
>
> Thanks for help
> Zdenek
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

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