Re: [boost] program_options: Why it throw ambiguous_option?

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-24 13:38:31

Well maybe as of a few days ago, but yes. Anyway, you should try to
debug it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Peng Yu
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:45 AM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] program_options: Why it throw ambiguous_option?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are you talking about CVS described at
> http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#CVS
> 
> The boost in CVS should make the following code work, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peng
> 
> On 1/24/07, Sohail Somani <s.somani_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > This works for me in CVS.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] on behalf of Peng Yu
> > Sent: Tue 1/23/2007 8:33 PM
> > To: boost_at_[hidden]
> > Subject: [boost] program_options: Why it throw ambiguous_option?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got the following error for the program list below. Where
> > program_options considers "help" and "help_abc" as ambiguous?
> >
> > $ ./main --help
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of
> > 'boost::program_options::ambiguous_option'
> >  what():  ambiguous option help
> > Aborted
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peng
> >
> >
> > #include <boost/program_options.hpp>
> > namespace po = boost::program_options;
> >
> > int main(int ac, char* av[])
> > {
> >  po::options_description desc("Allowed options");
> >  desc.add_options()
> >    ("help", "produce help message")
> >    ("help_abc", po::value<int>(), "set compression level")
> >    ;
> >
> >  po::variables_map vm;
> >  po::store(po::parse_command_line(ac, av, desc), vm);
> >  po::notify(vm);
> >
> >  return 0;
> > }
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