posix getopt behaviour

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
04 Jan 2003 23:14:04 -0500


This is, unfortunately, a bug in intltool.  This rule is picked up
from intltool.m4, which is installed by intltool.  You should talk
to them about fixing this.

-derek

Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:

> These rules in aclocal.m4 are wrong, options must come before non-option
> arguments. As they are they will fail on non-GNU getopt platforms and even
> with GNU getopt if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set to 1. I encourage developers to set
> POSIXLY_CORRECT to 1 to avoid writing non-posix compatible code by mistake.
> 
> I think I can just move the -d, -u, etc earlier but i'm not really familiar
> with these tools or automake et al so I'm not sure I'm even looking at the
> right file. Is aclocal.m4 the correct source file or is it pregenerated.
> 
>   INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE='%.desktop:   %.desktop.in   $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
> INTLTOOL_DIRECTORY_RULE='%.directory: %.directory.in $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>      INTLTOOL_KEYS_RULE='%.keys:      %.keys.in      $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -k -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>      INTLTOOL_PROP_RULE='%.prop:      %.prop.in      $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>       INTLTOOL_OAF_RULE='%.oaf:       %.oaf.in       $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -o -p'
>      INTLTOOL_PONG_RULE='%.pong:      %.pong.in      $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -x -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>    INTLTOOL_SERVER_RULE='%.server:    %.server.in    $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -o -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>     INTLTOOL_SHEET_RULE='%.sheet:     %.sheet.in     $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -x -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
> INTLTOOL_SOUNDLIST_RULE='%.soundlist: %.soundlist.in $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>        INTLTOOL_UI_RULE='%.ui:        %.ui.in        $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -x -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>       INTLTOOL_XML_RULE='%.xml:       %.xml.in       $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -x -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>     INTLTOOL_CAVES_RULE='%.caves:     %.caves.in     $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
>   INTLTOOL_SCHEMAS_RULE='%.schemas:   %.schemas.in   $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -s -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
> 
> 
> -- 
> greg
> 
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