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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Sergey Lukjanov <slukjanov at mirantis.com>wrote:

> Hey stackers,
>
> tools/config/generate_sample.sh isn't working on OS X due to the getopt
> usage. Any recipes / proposals to fix it? I have a workaround at least.
>

Your workaround looks fine. I wouldn't reject a patch, but since we don't
really use OS X as a platform I don't know if we would spend any time
changing the script to work there.

Doug



>
> TL;DR
>
> So, as I said tools/config/generate_sample.sh isn't working on OS X.
> Specifically it just couldn't parse command line arguments w/o any errors,
> just ignoring them. The reason of such behavior is significant difference
> between GNU getopt and BSD one (used in OS X). Probably, it could be easily
> fixed, but I don't know both of them.
>
> The main issue is that many projects are
> using tools/config/check_uptodate.sh in pep8 tox env to ensure that their
> config sample is always uptodate. So, "tox -e pep8" command always failing
> for such projects.
>
> Workaround:
>
> * install GNU getopt by using homebrew (brew install gnu-getopt) or
> macports (port install getopts);
> * add it to the PATH before the actual getopt before running tox;
> * if you'd like to make it default just add it to your bashrc/zshrc/etcrc,
> for example, for brew you should add: export PATH=$(brew --prefix
> gnu-getopt)/bin:$PATH
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Sergey Lukjanov
> Savanna Technical Lead
> Mirantis Inc.
>
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