Re: [help-gengetopt] Hidden command line switches

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Thomas Boehne wrote:
> 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.

yes, that's a good idea, I'll work on that!

> 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.

yes, in the meantime I'll modify this behavior; indeed, since all the 
functions are prefixed with func-name, it must be so also for the 
preocessor_values.

thanks
        Lorenzo

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