[fpc-devel]compiler/options.pas diff

[Peter Vreman]

At 00:43 30-8-01, you wrote:
>Hello!
>We have a nice program 'fpc' in compiler/util.
>But we can not get a FPC help if we call 'fpc' utility
>without any parameter. There is a patch:
>
>=====================================================
>-+- options.pas.old     Wed Aug 29 23:41:42 2001
>+++ options.pas Wed Aug 29 23:36:02 2001
>@@ -1454,8 +1454,10 @@
>      end;
>
>  { Write help pages }
>-  if (cmd='') and (paramcount=0) then
>-   Option.WriteHelpPages;
>+  if (cmd='') and
>+     ((paramcount=0) or ((paramcount=1) and (ParamStr(1)='')))
>+  then
>+    Option.WriteHelpPages;
>
>  { Stop if errors in options }
>    if ErrorCount>0 then
>=====================================================

This is a hack, not a real solution. ParamStr(1) being empty and 
paramcount=1 means that you call things like 'ppc386 ""'. Maybe not all 
platforms support that even correctly. So it needs to be fixed in fpc.pas 
and not in options.pas


Peter