I have popt 1.5 installed on my system... it appears to be required by
some software that I installed (specifically: gnomeiconedit 1.2.0)
Its not part of the base install of FreeBSD if that's what you're
asking... but it is available.
Didn't we already beat the command-line-parsing horse to death several
times already? :)
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Jason M. Felice wrote:
> This all sounds like -lpopt command-line parsing. You can use an
> external configuration file when parsing options with `-lpopt' to make
> an option alias.
>
> If we ever get to loadable modules (which is a good thing IMHO - right
> now gnome-5250 loads -lncurses, for example), the module's install
> script can tweak the popt config file accordingly.
>
> RedHat's RPM does just this. rpm -qi (for example) is just an alias for
> rpm --queryformat "%{ <the format of the info output> }"
>
> I'd like to hear from the BSD people as to whether -lpopt is installed
> on their system (Scott?). It's a really portable library.
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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