gnu hello bug report

[Nicolas Fischer]

Hi guys,

love your proggy, but found a bug

here's the info you requested to be provided with any bug-report 
(:http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/hello.html#Reporting-bugs)

-- version of hello

zapp ~ # hello --version
hello (GNU hello) 2.5

-- hardware and operating system names and version

zapp ~ # uname -a
Linux zapp 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 6 19:36:30 CEST 2010 i686 
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU L2500 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

-- expected behaviour:

zapp ~ # hello -n -g moin
+------+
| moin |
+------+

-- description of problem or any erroneaous output:

zapp ~ # hello -n -g moin
moin

-- option to configure

./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share 
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls

-- anything else I think might be helpfull

For some reason, the ebuild "app-misc/hello" is masked in the gentoo packaging 
system. maybe this hints to some bug or incompatibility in general.

We think we already have an idea what is happening: obviously the command-line 
parser implemented in hello only honors the last option. we have tried many 
different combinations of options, while our assumption held true.

---

greez, moin, and thanks for the beautiful software, looking forward to a quick 
fix, or, if that is not possible, at least some kind of a workaround,

.nick