[PATCH] include: Declare getopt function on old GNU libc
Tsukasa OI
research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com
Sun Oct 16 13:12:00 GMT 2022
On 2022/10/13 20:59, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 2022-10-13 11:11 a.m., Tsukasa OI via Binutils wrote:
>> On GNU libc <= 2.25, <unistd.h> includes <getopt.h> with __need_getopt macro
>> defined. That <getopt.h> is intended to be a part of GNU libc but
>> <unistd.h> actually includes include/getopt.h in this project.
>
> Messy.
Well, I have to agree.
>
> Do we really still need this getopt.h header?
>
> gnulib, at:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/getopt_002eh.html
>
> says:
>
> "This header file is missing on some platforms: AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, MSVC 14."
>
> AIX 5.1 is from 2001.
> HP-UX 11 is from 1997.
> We don't support building with MSVC AFAIK.
>
> Can't we just get rid of it?
>
I feel this is too unsafe to do that (unless you assume getopt_long and
getopt_long_only are always available on the system).
Even if this patch is unacceptable, I don't want to revert previous
changes to sim/configure{,.ac} either (it's necessary to prevent a build
failure with Clang). It's also a hack but to stop using getopt
(entirely) may be an option, changing following files:
- sim/igen/igen.c
- sim/m32c/main.c
- sim/rl78/main.c
I mean, we could replace getopt with getopt_long plus dummy longopts.
This way, CentOS (7) regression will (also) be gone.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Tsukasa
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