--- On Wed, 9/14/11, Michael Stahl wrote: ... > > > > In FreeBSD we were using an independent library in > some ports to > > support getopt_long but the regular library now > supports the GNU > > extensions. If it's needed it can be taken from > there. > > if it's not in a C standard at least 20 years old then > usually MSVC doesn't have it. >
Yes :(. At least configure/autoconf could learn to avoid building the extra stuff on linux/BSD. ... > > only reason why OOo ships STLport is ABI compatibility > of the URE and for C++ UNO extensions. > > we wanted to get rid of it for OOo 4.0 anyway. > Sounds like something we could anticipate for AOOo too. The specific extension that requires it should provide it. Pedro.
