Re: [help-gengetopt] Overriding -h option

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Lyle Brooks wrote:
> I am grafting gengetopt into a legacy program that needs to maintain
> -w and -h options (for width and height respectively).
>
> Unfortunately, I do not seem to be able to get gengetopt to allow the
> -h short option.  It seems like this is reserved for help (-h|--help).
>
> I tried
>
> gengetopt --no-handle-help --input=proj.ggo
>
> thinking that would all me to specify 
>
> option  "pagewidth"         w "Page Width"              float typestr="inches"
> option  "pageheight"        h "Page Height"             float typestr="inches"
>
> unfortunately, I get this error message
>
> gengetopt --no-handle-help --input=proj.ggo
> proj.ggo:28: short option redefined
> make: *** [cmdline.c] Error 1

Thanks for the report.

I'll work on making -h and -V overridable.

Lorenzo

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