[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#593522: Bug#593522: libboost-program-options1.42.0: Options parsing broken for long options with common root

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:29:15AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:40:43PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:55:02PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > Package: libboost-program-options1.42.0
> > > Version: 1.42.0-4
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > schroot (version 1.4.8-1 in unstable) has broken options parsing
> > > due to what looks like a Boost regression.
> > 
> > Can you provide a minimal code example, together with
> > expected and actual outputs?  I can pass it upstream.
> 
> Attached.  This is the output:
> 
> $ g++ -o test test.cc -lboost_program_options
> $ ./test --all
> all-source-chroots
> $ ./test --all-chroots
> all-chroots
> $ ./test --all-sessions
> all-sessions
> $ ./test --all-source-chroots
> all-source-chroots
> 
> so you can clearly see that --all is actually being treated by
> boost_program_options as being --all-source-chroots.

Just to make the expected output clear:
$ ./test --all
should have returned
==> all
and not
==> all-source-chroots


Regards,
Roger

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