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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    RE: [Linux-ha-dev] Question about the "telecom/checkpointd/"
From:       "Soffen, Matthew" <msoffen () iso-ne ! com>
Date:       2004-01-29 14:56:59
Message-ID: 4A19F19A1BB4D51183220020ED069714054E1EDB () exch2 ! iso-ne ! com
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There is an option.  For FreeBSD it is available as a port/package.  For
Solaris the software will just need to be added and built. 

The only pain is :

getopt-1.1.3
    A getopt(1) replacement that supports GNU-style long options
    Long description | Package | Sources | Main Web Site
    Maintained by: sergei@FreeBSD.org
    Requires: expat-1.95.6_1, gettext-0.12.1, gmake-3.80_1,
libgnugetopt-1.2, libiconv-1.9.1_3

So to do long options on FreeBSD will require 4 additional packages (
gettext and gmake are already required ).

So I'll work it in as a "requirement" to the configure.in or would the BEST
solution be make it support both short/long options ? (i.e. -h, --help )

I'm not sure how to work this into Solaris yet.  I'll work on that next.

Matt Soffen - Lead Application Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Horms [mailto:horms@verge.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:55 PM
To: High-Availability Linux Development List
Subject: Re: [Linux-ha-dev] Question about the "telecom/checkpointd/"


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:11:19PM -0500, Soffen, Matthew wrote:
> And I think I have figured out the issue.
> 
> getopt_long does NOT exist on FreeBSD/Solaris. 
> 
> What was the benefit to using long instead of the standard getopt ?

So you can have long options. Are you sure this isn't provided at all?

If not I would suggest making a HAVE_GETOPT_LONG (or alternativley
MY_SYSTEM_IS_SO_CRUSTY_IT_DOESNT_EVEN_HAVE_GETOPT_LONG :) and making
some alternate code in checkpointd.c. It should just be a few lines
worth of change. 

Other options would be to just removing the long options all together,
though it seems a shame to have to sink to that lowest common
denominator. Perhaps a good solution would be to using popt, that seems
to be pretty portable.

-- 
Horms
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