Bug#127571: gij: No -I switch

[ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Gordon Haverland writes:
> > Package: gij
> > Version: 2:3.0.3-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Some documentation on gij suggests that the -I/path
> > switch can be used to prepend directories to otherwise
> > provided/generated classpath.  This includes current
> > information at the gnu site.  The gij binary doesn't
> > appear to have this (at least I couldn't pick it out
> > with the strings program).  saxoncat assumes that
> > classpath info can be added this way, if using gij.
> 
> I cannot find anything of this, not in gcc-3.0.3, and not in the
> CVS HEAD branch. Could you be more specific on "some"?

Well, the first "documentation" was the saxoncat shell script,
which was trying to do this.  I looked at the man page, which of 
course doesn't list a -I switch.  I then ran gij --help,
and it too doesn't list -I as a real switch.  Going to
google and doing a search for gij, I got to
 http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.0/gcj_8.html
which again doesn't mention -I.  Going to contents I
got fooled by the invoking gcj section, which does allow
for a -I switch.  

So, I guess I can't find any GNU documentation on a -I
switch for gij.  As I have already reported this and something
else to the saxon-catalog maintainer, I guess we might as
well close this.  Perhaps the GNU people could make it a
little clearer that gij doesn't support -i, contrary to
its cousin gcj?

Gord