Re: gEDA: gerbv --help is wrong

[Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:32:31PM +0200, Stefan Petersen wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:53:43PM +0200, Stefan Petersen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> > >
> > > > clock@beton:~$ gerbv -V
> > > > gerbv version 0.15
> > > > (C) Stefan Petersen (spe@stacken.kth.se)
> > > > clock@beton:~$ gerbv --version
> > > > gerbv: invalid option -- -
> > > > Usage : gerbv [FLAGS] <gerber file(s)>
> > > > where FLAGS could be any of
> > > >   --version|-V : Prints version of gerbv
> > > >   --log=<logfile>|-l <logfile> : Send error messages to <logfile>
> > >
> > > I see two problems here:
> > > * the long options don't work. This is probably due to the fact that
> > > configure didn't find the function getopt_long and therefore  didn't
> > > include it in the build. If available if should be in your libc.
> >
> > I have a fairly new libc:
> > /lib/libc-2.3.1.so
> > installed with usual ./configure && make && make install. Do I need to enable
> > some extra cosmic features of the libc to get getopt_long?
> 
> Don't know.
> 
> 
> > gerbv should detect if getopt_long is available and if not, remove the long
> > options from the help
> 
> Fixed in CVS.
> 
> 
> > (and write into the manpage that they are available only on systems that
> > support getopt_long).
> 
> This has been in the man page basically since the first release of gerbv.
> Look at http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/gerbv-man.html after the word
> "Warning!".
> 
> 
> > And also options that exist only as long ones should not exist at all
> > - otherwise the program stops being portable.
> 
> The only options that has only a long version (since Dimtri fixed it) is
> the GTK flags.

What I find amazing is that some people still seem able to update
their CVS checkout of gerbv. I've systematically got timeouts
for weeks. The problem used to happen with PCB, which seems to have
cured itself by transferring the disease to gerbv...

	Regards,
	Gabriel
> 
> /spe