Problems compiling rsync with latest update

Wed Sep 19 07:17:00 GMT 2001

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:56:26PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 2001年09月19日, 9:30:
> >- getopt.h is now automatically included with unistd.h to fulfil
> > SUSv2 requirements. (Corinna Vinschen)
>> Uiuiui, I should be more concentrated when reading...
> I apologize for the williwaw.
>> However, I think this is an unneccessary change, and I don't like it.
> I have commented out this part of unistd.h.

Each new version of Cygwin will bring it back, regardless if
you like it or not. It's a _requirement_ as I wrote above so
it's _by definition_ not unnecessary.
$ man 3 getopt
GETOPT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual GETOPT(3)
NAME
 getopt - Parse command line options
SYNOPSIS
 #include <unistd.h>
 int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[],
 const char *optstring);
[...]
Excerpt from SUSv2:
 The Single UNIX Ã‚Â® Specification, Version 2
 Copyright Ã‚Â© 1997 The Open Group 
 NAME
 getopt, optarg, optind, opterr, optopt - command option parsing 
 SYNOPSIS
 #include <unistd.h>
 int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[], const char *optstring);
[...]
Corinna
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