Re: [help-gengetopt] --unamed-opts

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Thus, it is the behavior of getopt which does that, right?

On 04/30/2013 02:15 AM, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
> I think getopt will strip all the options, and then the unamed options
> are left untouched.
> 
> Repoducible example? I think any program where gengetopt was not
> called with --unamed-opts.
> 
> Take the example program at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html.
> 
> Call gengetopt without --unamed-opts:
> 
> gengetopt < sample1.ggo --file-name=cmdline1
> 
> Then edit the programa and delete lines 33 and 34. (cause they require
> unamed options).
> 
> Now call ./sample1 -i 10 abcd.
> 
> You can see "abcd" is silently ignored.
> 
> Nuno
> 
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Lorenzo Bettini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 04/27/2013 09:23 AM, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if --unamed-opts is having the intended behaviour.
>>>
>>> It is defined as:
>>> --unamed-opts
>>> the program will accept also options without a name, which, in most
>>> case, means that we can pass many file names to the program
>>>
>>> But I tested that currently if it is not set, but the user still
>>> passes unamed options, it does not cause any error when parsing, it
>>> just doesn't process them.
>>>
>>> So I think it should fail the parsing and throw a message that
>>> unexpected unamed options were found, or that this description is
>>> changed to something that makes that clear:
>>>
>>> "the program will parse also options without a name, which, in most
>>> case, means that we can pass many file names to the program. If not
>>> set options without a name are ignored"
>>>
>>
>> mh... I thought it would have reported an error in such case... do you
>> have a reproducible example?  Please keep in mind that the actual
>> command line options are parsed by getopt_long, not the code generated
>> by gengetopt itself; thus, probably, this is the intended behavior from
>> getopt_long?
>>
>> cheers
>>         Lorenzo
>>
>>
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