Bug 129944

Summary: popt: support for lone dashes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component: rpmAssignee: Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
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Patch to recognize lone dashes (STDIN/STDOUT)
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simple test app none

Description Jan Engelhardt 2004-08-15 07:47:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
popt does not recognize lone dashes, i.e. "-" which are commonly used
to specify STDIN/STDOUT, but instead says "-: unknown option".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.1.1-177 / popt-1.7-176.3 (from SuSE, sorry ;-))

Additional info:
I have attached a patch that implements the feature to recognize such
lone dashes, as well as a simple test.c.

How to reproduce:
test.c, if compiled and run as "a.out AX -a BX - CX -a DX" should
yield "-: unknown option, a.out AX -a BX - CX -a DX" without the patch,
"AX BX - CX DX" with patch.


BTW, "popt" is missing in the "Component" list.
Comment 1 Jan Engelhardt 2004-08-15 07:48:37 UTC 
Created attachment 102739 [details]
Patch to recognize lone dashes (STDIN/STDOUT)
Comment 2 Jan Engelhardt 2004-08-15 07:49:50 UTC 
Created attachment 102740 [details]
simple test app
Comment 3 Jan Engelhardt 2004-10-21 16:10:59 UTC 
Anything?
Comment 4 Jan Engelhardt 2005-03-14 12:07:36 UTC 
*bump*
Comment 5 Jan Engelhardt 2005-04-29 15:34:05 UTC 
Does anybody look at this even?
Comment 6 Jeff Johnson 2005-11-02 16:24:07 UTC 
Patch added to popt CVS. Should be in rpm-4.4.3-0.32 when built.