Subject: Re: fortune makefiles incorrect ?
To: None <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/07/1999 10:12:55
Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz> writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> > Zoularis is actually not very heavyweight EXCEPT for one thing: there
> > are ugly hacks in place to deal with the __progname hack. It turns out
> > that doing __progname portably is very hard indeed.
> > 
> > If someone could come up with a better hack for dealing with
> > __progname well, we could have our portability library work much more
> > smoothly.
> 
> BTW, what is the __progname hack ?

NetBSD programs use __progname to refer to argv[0].

Perry