When I tested this last time (before pulling it from @laanwj repo to main tree) I was able to run bitcoin-qt --help and look into options from bitcoind, but now it just quietly start and don't show help (but it support other bitcoind options like -blocknet abd -addnode. Just applied them silently).
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msva commented at 11:17 PM on May 12, 2012: contributor
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gmaxwell commented at 11:25 PM on May 12, 2012: contributor
Works okay with git master on Linux right now.
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msva commented at 11:35 PM on May 12, 2012: contributor
it's a strange thing, because I've compiled it few hours ago and it is, as I said, ignores "--help" argument
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msva commented at 11:38 PM on May 12, 2012: contributor
Uh, okay! It just initialize splash and tray icon at first, and only AFTER that it shows help-screen ;) I just did not wait for initialization and pressed ^C every time.
Anyway, I think, --help should be processed before initialization of splash and tray icon ;)
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sipa commented at 11:43 PM on May 12, 2012: member
Agree; --help should maybe be dealt with separately from other options.
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laanwj commented at 7:13 AM on May 13, 2012: member
Printing of --help should indeed be moved out of AppInit2 for many reasons. See for possible design the last post here: #1049
The core should return the options it has available with a call. GUI can add its own options and do the actual printing. In the case of the daemon it could move up to AppInit including the !defined(QT_GUI) block.
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laanwj commented at 6:40 AM on May 15, 2012: member
Should be fixed now, closing.
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