These variables make it easy for user programs to implement the ‘--version’ option and provide a bug-reporting address in the ‘--help’ output. These are implemented in argp by default.
If defined or set by the user program to a non-zero value, then a ‘--version’ option is added when parsing with
argp_parse
, which will print the ‘--version’ string followed by a newline and exit. The exception to this is if theARGP_NO_EXIT
flag is used.
If defined or set by the user program to a non-zero value,
argp_program_bug_address
should point to a string that will be printed at the end of the standard output for the ‘--help’ option, embedded in a sentence that says ‘Report bugs to address.’.
If defined or set by the user program to a non-zero value, a ‘--version’ option is added when parsing with
arg_parse
, which prints the program version and exits with a status of zero. This is not the case if theARGP_NO_HELP
flag is used. If theARGP_NO_EXIT
flag is set, the exit behavior of the program is suppressed or modified, as when the argp parser is going to be used by other programs.It should point to a function with this type of signature:
void print-version (FILE *stream, struct argp_state *state)See Argp Parsing State, for an explanation of state.
This variable takes precedence over
argp_program_version
, and is useful if a program has version information not easily expressed in a simple string.