Re: windres: -fo

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On April 23, 2003 04:57 am, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >   * Silently accepts -fo, but does not advertise the fact in the
> >     --help output.
> 
> Cool, I thought about doing that, I just don't know your policy
> on these sort of things.
> 
> >   * Accepts both "-fo <filename>" and "-fo<filename>".  Dimitirie's
> >     patch would only accept the second form, but I am not sure if this
> >     was deliberate.
> 
> Yeah, it was. I didn't want to complicate the code needlessly.
> The patch was providing the posibility to have a common command
> line between windres and rc, not to cover all possible combinations.
> Moreover, I'm not even sure rc supports the first version, only the
> second form is documented by Microsoft. But since you've added it,
> it's all good, it makes more sense to support both forms.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Dimi.
> 
> P.S. Any idea when we're gonna have a release? The Mozilla 1.4b is
>      due in about one week, would be nice to have a version of
>      binutils that we can recommend for building it. Right now
>      they checked in some really horiffic patches to work around
>      windres' problems, reverting them before the release would be
>      A Good Thing (TM).

Less than a week is pretty unlikely :)  I'd like to do this one
quickly, though, and have a prerelease in a couple of days.  We're
pretty close; I need to make time for testing, and someone needs to
investigate Joern's report.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer