Re: option name collision with builtin 'include' special directive

Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:28:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/26/2010 05:07 PM, Papp Gyozo (VBuster) wrote:
>> if you're in crazy hurry, I suggest you to manually modify the generated
>> parser and remove the use of "include" as a keyword with another string
>> (e.g., "FOOBAR"), in the line
>>
>> if (!strcmp(fopt,"include")) {
>>
>> this is a dirty hack but at least will keep you going for the moment.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> Then, we can think of a solution for this... e.g., using an escape
>> character for options whose name is right "include", e.g., "\include"...
>
> I think that an option to disable this feature would be fine and enough.
> This approach (dedicated option to switch on/off a specific feature) worked well in the past and this would cause less headache in the community.

however, I'm a bit reluctant about the command line option to disable, 
since gengetopt is having quite a lot of them ;)

but we'll think about that

cheers
	Lorenzo

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