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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Tell GPRBuild to trigger an error on unknown options in project file?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:37:42 -0400
Date: 2013-04-23T03:37:42-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8561zdae9l.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.wvyohbhpule2fv@cardamome

"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> I don't like when something does not behave as expected without an
> error message, or the same, get silently ignored.

Good sentiment.

> As an example, I just wanted to pass a `--target=…` option to GPRBuild
> in the Builder package of a project file, but it was silently ignored.
> I later noticed the documentation indeed list this as part of the
> options that may only be passed to GPRBuild's command line, and not in
> project files [1].
>
> Now I know, but I still feel it would be better to get a plain error
> message (and compilation failure) when an option is passed via the
> Builder package which GPRBuild does not handle.

You are sending this message to the wrong place; report@gnat.com would
be much more likely to get a useful response.

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-22 21:25 Tell GPRBuild to trigger an error on unknown options in project file? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-04-23  7:37 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2013-04-23  7:53   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-04-23 11:13     ` Simon Wright
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