[help-gengetopt] Hidden command line switches

[Thomas Boehne]

Hello list, 

I am currently writing an application that has to support some options
which must not show up on --help. It would be nice to have a flag for
each option that specifies that the option should not show up on
--help.

My current workaround is to write two ggo files, one with the hidden
options and one without them, and run gengetopt with --no-handle-help.
I parse the options with the complete parser, and on --help I call
print_help() of the restricted parser.

The problem with that workaround is that I cannot use the values=
option, because it puts char arrays with the same name in both .c and
.h files, i.e.:

extern char *processor_values[] ; /* Possible values for processor. */

So if you do not plan to support hidden options, could you make those
value names unique (just prepending something like --func-name would
do the job for me). Not making those variables extern would also work
for me, but others might depend on that feature.

Thanks for your help, 
Thomas

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