Support the Gnu long option command line switches.

Import parse_long_options()

Imported definition

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  35: #include "long-options.h"

Parse long command-line arguments

Code insertion

Notes

Precedes all other configuration choices

How far down could this be placed without a change in behavior? Does it's early occurance avoid the cost of other configuration choise? Could the standard command line processing be moved up to its current location?

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1733:   parse_long_options (argc, argv, "sort", GNU_PACKAGE, VERSION, usage);
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