Is there already something available in gnulib like err_exclusive_options() in util-linux [1] to automatically catch mutual exclusiveness of options inside the getopt loop?
This approach is quite nice for basic checking. Of course, things can easily become more complicated, when you want to issue custom messages, or issue a warning instead of an error (e.g. "warning: '-x' overriding '-y' option"), or when such exclusiveness depends on an option's value, etc. Okay, there is the "gengetopt" project [2], but this doesn't seem to be ideal for simplifying existing code. [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux/util-linux.git;a=blob;f=include/optutils.h [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/ Have a nice day, Berny
