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diff --git a/popt/README b/popt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b5205b --- /dev/null +++ b/popt/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This is the popt command line option parsing library. While it is similiar +to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including: + + 1) popt is fully reentrant + 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while + getopt(2) makes this quite difficult + 3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments + 4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings + into argv[] style arrays + +popt is used by rpm, the Red Hat install program, and many other Red Hat +utilities, all of which provide excellent examples of how to use popt. +Complete documentation on popt is available in popt.ps (included in this +tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux +Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (availble +from Addison Wesley in May, 1998). + +Comments on popt should be addressed to ewt@redhat.com. diff --git a/popt/README.rsync b/popt/README.rsync new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cf54d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/popt/README.rsync @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +This is a perfectly ordinary copy of libpopt. It is only used on platforms +that do not have a sufficiently up-to-date copy of their own. If you build +rsync on a platform which has popt, this directory should not be used. (You +can control that using the --with-included-popt configure flag.) |