RED-554: SNOW-623: Add support for boost 1.42

See http://redmine.imprudenceviewer.org/issues/554

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/linden/indra/newview/llcommandlineparser.cpp b/linden/indra/newview/llcommandlineparser.cpp
index c74406b..36b0e71 100644
--- a/linden/indra/newview/llcommandlineparser.cpp
+++ b/linden/indra/newview/llcommandlineparser.cpp
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
 namespace po = boost::program_options;
 
-// *NTOE:MEP - Currently the boost object reside in file scope. 
+// *NOTE:MEP - Currently the boost object reside in file scope.
 // This has a couple of negatives, they are always around and 
 // there can be only one instance of each. 
 // The plus is that the boost-ly-ness of this implementation is 
@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ public:
         return mIsComposing;
     }
 
+    // Needed for boost 1.42
+    virtual bool is_required() const
+    {
+        return false; // All our command line options are optional.
+    }
+
     virtual bool apply_default(boost::any& value_store) const
     {
         return false; // No defaults.
@@ -268,7 +274,11 @@ bool LLCommandLineParser::parseAndStoreResults(po::command_line_parser& clp)
     {
         clp.options(gOptionsDesc);
         clp.positional(gPositionalOptions);
-        clp.style(po::command_line_style::default_style 
+                // SNOW-626: Boost 1.42 erroneously added allow_guessing to the default style
+                // (see http://groups.google.com/group/boost-list/browse_thread/thread/545d7bf98ff9bb16?fwc=2&pli=1)
+                // Remove allow_guessing from the default style, because that is not allowed
+                // when we have options that are a prefix of other options (aka, --help and --helperuri).
+        clp.style((po::command_line_style::default_style & ~po::command_line_style::allow_guessing)
                   | po::command_line_style::allow_long_disguise);
                 if(mExtraParser)
                 {