From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: Re: getopt?
9 Feb 1998 14:50:24 -0800
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   From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
   Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:18:25 GMT

   This time, ld complained about the lack of a getopt_long in the "new"
   version of getopt.  The Berkeley version doesn't have anything like
   this, since it is, apparently, only an implementation of old-style
   single character processing getopt.

That's normal.  The GNU tools will use their own copy of getopt on all
systems.  Attempting to optimize this is a bad idea, unless you go to
some extra work to make sure the interface is correct.

The advantage of putting getopt in cygwin would be for non GNU tools.

Ian