Re: [postfix-users] pipe unable to parse dash flags in argv (resolved)

Peter C. Lai:
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 09:45:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
>
> > I REPEAT: YOU HAVE LINKED POSTFIX WITH A BRAIN DAGAGED GNU GETOPT ROUTINE.
> >
> > DON'T DO THAT. POSTFIX REQUIRES THAT YOU USE THE SYSTEM GETOPT
> > ROUTINE.
>
> This is not a problem I can easily resolve. What would you propose?

Use the SYSTEM LIBRARY getopt() routine!

DO NOT overrride system library routines with brain-damaged third
party versions.

If you must use third-party libraries that override native methods
specify

-lc

before

-lbraindamagedthirdpartylibrary

Wietse

> I can see
> if it will build correctly without linking -L /usr/local/lib, because it WILL
> ALWAYS pick up the broken gnugetopt IF we are linking to /usr/local/lib AND
> the freebsd libgnugetopt port is installed. In any case, we must change the
> Makefile in order to get it to link to the correct getopt library, and doing
> this is beyond my scope of expertise.
>
>