a bug in the argument processing of 'bc' (v1.06) prevents it from properly reading long-format options. compare short opt "-l" versus long opt "--mathlib" for example. the patch below should fix it. a spelling error has been fixed as well. i've submitted this patch to the bc author (over a year ago), but the bug persists, so i hope we can at least work it out of the gentoo distribution. thanks, shac ron. --- bc/main.c Thu May 1 00:35:46 2003 +++ bc/main.c Thu May 1 01:24:13 2003 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ printf ("usage: %s [options] [file ...]\n%s%s%s%s%s%s%s", progname, " -h --help print this usage and exit\n", " -i --interactive force interactive mode\n", - " -l --mathlib use the predefine math routnes\n", + " -l --mathlib use the predefined math routines\n", " -q --quiet don't print initial banner\n", " -s --standard non-standard bc constructs are errors\n", " -w --warn warn about non-standard bc constructs\n", @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ warn_not_std = TRUE; break; + case 0: /* a longopt was processed */ + break; + default: usage(argv[0]); exit (1);
added to bc-1.06-r6 thanks ! :)
