Re: [help-gengetopt] convert ggo file to man page

[Andre Noll]

On 11:29, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> >>>True. But this does not work when cross-compiling. Would it be
> >>>difficult to implement something like
> >>>
> >>>   gengetopt --print-detailed-help < my.ggo
> >>>
> >>>which would output the detailed help text directly?
> >>>
> >>there are already options for this :-)
> >
> >Wow :)
> >Thanks for pointing that out, and sorry for not RTFM.
> 
> No problem :-)
> but does this solve the problem of cross-compiling?
> Moreover, I guess help2man expects a program name, not a simple output?

Well, it's a first step. If help2man could read from stdin
instead of insisting to call an executable to obtain its input,
the cross-compiling problem would be solved. But that's not a real
problem because one can always use a shell script wrapper like

        #!/bin/sh
        case $1 in
        --help) gengetopt --show-help < my.ggo;;
        --detailed-help) gengetopt --show-detailed-help < my.ggo;;
        esac

Best
Andre
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