On 24/09/20 12:48, Roman Bolshakov wrote: > Unfortunately it has no effect (and I wouldn't want to do that to avoid > issues with other scripts/software that implicitly depend on native > utilities): > > $ brew link --force gnu-getopt > Warning: Refusing to link macOS provided/shadowed software: gnu-getopt > If you need to have gnu-getopt first in your PATH run: > echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc > > So if it's possible I'd still prefer to add an option to specify > --getopt in configure. I can resend a patch for that. No, I'm not going to accept that. It's just Apple's stupidity. I have applied your patch, rewriting the harness in another language would probably be a good idea though. Paolo