-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jan Engelhardt on 7/24/2009 3:25 AM: > Hi, > > > when one has a program that does something like > > if(strcmp(argv[0], "gunzip") == 0) > uncompress(); > else > compress();
GNU Coding Standards frown on this practice: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/standards.html#User-Interfaces Instead, it should be done the way coreutils differentiates 'ls' from 'dir' behavior - the latter merely #defines a single variable to choose a different set of defaults, then includes the source of the former. But the point is that they are two distinct applications, rather than one that makes decisions based on argv[0]. That said, you are correct that not all programs follow GCS this closely, so it would indeed be nice if libtool wrapper scripts could accomodate this. But better than creating a temporary file every time would be figuring out ways to change argv[0] from the shell (although not all shells support this, and those that do don't always do it in the same manner). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkppoXMACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCqTQCgtyaccnT7h+hZ6cpSJLqzXvTT dXEAn2DLAphgb1sN0c4UJcLbGEz7+QK3 =boVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
