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Re: windres: -fo

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:07:11PM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
>This one is the last (famous last words :)) patch in
>my series of compatibility patches. With this one in,
>we can hopefully get rid of the ugly ifdefs in Makefiles.
>
>You gotta hate MS for the ugly choice of option names... :(
>
>BTW, this is now also supported by wrc, so we get the
>tree way compatibility: windres, wrc, rc.
>
>2003-04-22  Dimitrie O. Paun <dpaun at rogers dot com>
>
>        * windres.c: Support -fo for compatibility with rc.
>        (main): Support the -fo option as a synonym for -o.
>        * doc/binutils.texi: Added -fo to the list of options.

Sorry but this one I do have a problem with.  You're essentially adding
a two character option ('fo') which is introduced by a single '-'
('-fo').  While consistency is nice, I don't think we should be
completely breaking convention to achieve it.

cgf
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