Greetings! I went ahead and put this into the Version_2_6_9pre tag. If it works for you and you can drop me a note, that would be great!
Take care, "Jared C. Davis" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write a wrapper function that provides uniform access to > the command-line arguments of Lisp programs across many Lisps. > > In CCL (and also in Allegro, CLISP, CMUCL, SBCL, mutatis mutandis), one can > do: > > $ cat myprog-ccl > #!/bin/sh > exec ccl -I myprog.ccl -K ISO-8858-1 -e "(myprog::main)" -- "$@" > > The options that come before the special "--" argument here are "for > the Lisp", and options after it are "for my program." > > This is especially nice because there is no ambiguity: > #1. If my program takes its own -I switch, that's okay: the LIsp > isn't going to get confused and think that I'm telling it to use some > other image. > #2. If my program doesn't have its own -K switch, that's fine: the > Lisp isn't going to send that option to the program, because it's an > option for the Lisp. > > Does GCL have any command-line switch similar to "--"? > >>From the man page, it almost sounds like I want to use -f. But that > seems to do something strange involving reading files, and so it > doesn't seem quite right. > > If there is no such option, I guess I can at least write my wrapper > script along the following lines: > > $ cat myprog-gcl > #!/bin/sh > exec myprog.gcl -eval "(myprog::main)" -- "$@" > > Then, in my program, I could at least throw out everything before the > "--" in si::*command-args*. > > This would at least give me the good behavior #2. But since GCL would > still be processing all of the arguments, it doesn't seem like it > solves #1. For instance, if my program has its own options with names > like -f, -dir, -eval, etc., then GCL will think are options for it, > and then would presumably try to do crazy things. > > Thanks! > Jared -- Camm Maguire [email protected] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
