windres: -fo
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Wed Apr 23 16:26:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On April 23, 2003 04:57 am, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > * Silently accepts -fo, but does not advertise the fact in the
> > --help output.
>
> Cool, I thought about doing that, I just don't know your policy
> on these sort of things.
>
> > * Accepts both "-fo <filename>" and "-fo<filename>". Dimitirie's
> > patch would only accept the second form, but I am not sure if this
> > was deliberate.
>
> Yeah, it was. I didn't want to complicate the code needlessly.
> The patch was providing the posibility to have a common command
> line between windres and rc, not to cover all possible combinations.
> Moreover, I'm not even sure rc supports the first version, only the
> second form is documented by Microsoft. But since you've added it,
> it's all good, it makes more sense to support both forms.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Dimi.
>
> P.S. Any idea when we're gonna have a release? The Mozilla 1.4b is
> due in about one week, would be nice to have a version of
> binutils that we can recommend for building it. Right now
> they checked in some really horiffic patches to work around
> windres' problems, reverting them before the release would be
> A Good Thing (TM).
Less than a week is pretty unlikely :) I'd like to do this one
quickly, though, and have a prerelease in a couple of days. We're
pretty close; I need to make time for testing, and someone needs to
investigate Joern's report.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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