[Toybox] About supporting long(--) option

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Jun 22 13:14:15 PDT 2013


On 04/29/2013 01:17:46 AM, Kyungwan Han wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a question about treating long(--) option in toybox.
> 
> There are two style options - short(-) and long(--) - in linux system.
> (
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21852/single-dashes-for-single-character-options-but-double-dashes-for-words
> )
> 
> I know toybox supports only short option, so toybox cannot treat  
> '--help'
> option.
> 
> Is there special reason for not supporting long option?

I just upgraded scripts/make.sh to generate FLAG_longoptname macros for  
the ones that haven't got a short option.

I'm now doing some bug checking (and adding test suite entries) to make  
sure the other aspects of them work (attaching strings to them and  
such). Also, --longopt=abc should work and doesn't seem to...

Working on it, but there was a storm in minnesota that knocked out  
power, so wireless is down and I've got half an hour of laptop battery  
left. Dunno how much I'll get done today...

Rob


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