Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#123 closed defect (fixed)

Use Getopt::Std instead of legacy getopts.pl

Reported by: Julien ÉLIE Owned by: eagle
Priority: medium Milestone: 2.5.0
Component: utilities Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

In getopts.pl, we can read:

# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.

Moreover, it causes problems like:

% innmail -h

  • Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/getopts.pl line 26.

getopts.pl:

    if($pos >= $[) {
        if($args[$pos+1] eq ':') {   ### <--- Line 26
            shift(@ARGV);

% innmail -s "test" mail-address

  • Use of uninitialized value in string eq at (eval 139) line 3.

We should use Getopt::Std instead of getopts.pl.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by Julien ÉLIE

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [8290]) Use Getopt::Std instead of getopts.pl (which is not maintained
by Perl and produces spurious warnings).

Thanks to William Kronert for the report.

close #123

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