[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60886] Command line option '--gui' ignored when used together with '--path'

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #60886 (project octave):

OK, yes, I don't think we need to match 0.  The docs say it returns -1 if no
more options are available (there may still be non-option arguments) and '?'
if an unrecognized option character or a missing option argument is found.

As I remember, the original intent of the option handling in main.cc was to do
minimal processing, detect errors that would make it impossible for the
wrapper program to decide what to do, but otherwise pass the arguments on to
the real program (octave-cli or octave-gui) even if there were some arguments
that didn't make sense.  But now maybe getopt in main.cc could be detecting
other errors?  If so, I guess we need to decide whether to handle the errors
in the wrapper program and octave-{gui,cli} or try to fix the wrapper program
to ignore getopt errors and just pass the options on to octave-{gui,cli}.


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