On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>>>Dave schrieb:
>>>
>>>>Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
>>>>unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source.
>>>>
>>>>Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday).
>>>>Modify the leader text as you see fit :)
>>>>
>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>--- main.cc~ 2004-10-25 19:34:32.000000000 +0100
>>>>+++ main.cc 2004-11-16 19:21:14.000000000 +0000
>>>>@@ -471,7 +471,11 @@
>>>>
>>>> if (HelpOption)
>>>> {
>>>>-
>>>>GetOption::GetInstance().ParameterUsage(log(LOG_PLAIN)<<"\nCommand Line
>>>>Options:\n");
>>>>+ log(LOG_PLAIN)<<"\nOutput command line options\n";
>>>>+ std::cout << "setup [options]\n\n"
>>>>+ << "Cygwin setup installs and maintains cygwin packages\n\n"
>>>>+ << "Command Line options:\n";
>>>>+ GetOption::GetInstance().ParameterUsage(std::cout);
>>>> theLog->exit(0);
>>>> }
>>>
>>>you should really check if the parent isatty.
>>>nevertheless I consider this hack useful.
>>
>>
>>Actually, there was a thread about this on the cygwin list not too long
>>ago.
>
>Yep. This suggested a complicated trick. I found an easier one.
>I just detect if the console title ends with "setup.exe"
>(case-insensitive). If so it's new and can be hidden.
>
>>Applications linked with -mwindows (i.e., GUI apps) can't print to
>>stdout. How does this actually work, in that case? Is this expecting
>>to display something on the console?
>
>I added a patch to switch to the console subsystem and hide this concole
>if it was a fresh new console. Otherwise, if called from a console or if
>called with -h leave the console.
>
>Patch see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=556
I really don't understand why we should stand on our heads to make
setup.exe a console subsystem program (you don't need to both specify
-mwindows and -Wl,--subsystem=console, btw) when you can just open up a
dialog box to display the options, like every other windows program in
the world.
cgf
