Now gbootroot is functioning well as either a GUI or CLI in relation to whether or not arguments are added. Options.pm allows things to be checked before interpreting so that a determination can be made what mode to go in.

BootRoot/BootRoot.pm

@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ use Exporter;
 
 use strict;
 use POSIX;
-use Getopt::Long;  # only here for convenience
 use BootRoot::Yard;
 use BootRoot::YardBox;
 use BootRoot::Error;
 use File::Basename;
 use File::Find;
 use File::Path;
+use BootRoot::Options;
 
 $SIG{__WARN__} = 
     sub { warn @_ unless $_[0] =~ /Subroutine [\w:]+ redefined/io 
@@ -349,13 +349,16 @@ my $verbosity = 1; # info & sys use this as Global
 $verbosefn = "$tmp/verbose"; # All verbosity
 #my $verbosefn = "/tmp/verbose";  # Yard - always logged, but 0&1 = STDOUT
 
-# Need this before everything.
-Gtk::Rc->parse("/etc/gbootroot/gbootrootrc");
+if ( !%option ) {
+    if ( !$::commandline ) {
+
+	# Need this before everything.
+      Gtk::Rc->parse("/etc/gbootroot/gbootrootrc");
+	verbosity_box(); 
+	start_logging_output($verbosefn,$verbosity); # Yard "tmp dir name" 
+	                                             # "verbosity level"
+    }
 
-if ( !$::commandline ) {
-verbosity_box(); 
-start_logging_output($verbosefn,$verbosity); # Yard "tmp dir name" 
-                                             # "verbosity level"
 }
 
 #-------------------------------
@@ -436,27 +439,30 @@ if ( -d $global_yard_replacements_arch_dep ) {
 
 #-------------------------------
 
-if ( !$::commandline ) {
+if ( !%option ) {
+    if ( !$::commandline ) {
 
 # Gtk::check_version expects different arguments than .7004 so will have
 # to check for the version instead.
 # Right now >= 0.7002 is o.k.
 #if (Gtk::check_version(undef,"1","0","7") =~ /too old/) {
 
-    if (Gtk->major_version < 1) {
-	et();
-    }
-    elsif (Gtk->micro_version < 7) {
-	et();
-    }
-    elsif (Gtk->minor_version < 2) {
-	et();
+	if (Gtk->major_version < 1) {
+	    et();
+	}
+	elsif (Gtk->micro_version < 7) {
+	    et();
+	}
+	elsif (Gtk->minor_version < 2) {
+	    et();
+	}
     }
 }
 
 my $window;
 
-if ( !$::commandline ) {
+if ( !%option ) {
+    if ( !$::commandline  ) {
 
 $window = Gtk::Window->new("toplevel");
 # special policy
@@ -721,6 +727,7 @@ $box2->show();
 
 $window->show();
 
+}
 }
 
 # Here we put the logic if the program is going to be run from the commandline.
@@ -792,31 +799,16 @@ else {
 
 # Let's read in the ARGV
 
-   my %option;
-  Getopt::Long::config("bundling","no_auto_abbrev");
-GetOptions (
-    
-    %option,
-    "root-filename=s",
-    "uml-kernel=s", 
-    "method=s",
-    "template=s",           # The only required argument
-    "filesystem-size=s",
-    "filesytem-type=s",
-    "uml-exclusively=s",
-    "preserve-ownership=s",
-    "kernel-version=s",
-
-    );
-
 
 start_logging_output($verbosefn,$verbosity); # Yard "tmp dir name" 
 
-
                                              # "verbosity level"
-info(1, "hello there\n");
+#info(1, "hello there\n");
+
 
 
+my $it = kernel_version_check();
+print $it;
 
 #    read_contents_file( "$template_dir$template", $tmp,
 #			    $filesystem_size, \%uml_expect );

BootRoot/Options.pm

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+############################################################################
+##
+##  Options.pm 
+##  Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 by Jonathan Rosenbaum
+##                              <freesource@users.sourceforge.net>
+##
+##  This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
+##  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+##  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+##  (at your option) any later version.
+##
+##  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+##  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+##  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+##  GNU General Public License for more details.
+## 
+##  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+##  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+##  Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+##
+##############################################################################
+
+package BootRoot::Options;
+use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT %EXPORT_TAGS);
+use Exporter;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+@ISA = qw(Exporter);
+@EXPORT =  qw(option %option);
+
+sub option {
+
+  Getopt::Long::config("bundling","no_auto_abbrev");
+    GetOptions (
+		
+		\%option,
+		"root-filename=s",
+		"uml-kernel=s", 
+		"method=s",
+		"template=s",           # The only required argument
+		"filesystem-size=s",
+		"filesytem-type=s",
+		"uml-exclusively=s",
+		"preserve-ownership=s",
+		"kernel-version=s",
+		"stdout"		
+		
+		);
+
+}
+
+1;
+
+
+
+

BootRoot/Yard.pm

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ use English;  # I think this can be ditched for portability
 use File::Find; # used by check_root_fs
 use BootRoot::BootRoot;
 use BootRoot::Error; 
+use BootRoot::Options;
 
 my (%Included, %replaced_by, %links_to, %is_module, %hardlinked, 
     %strippable, %lib_needed_by, @Libs, %user_defined_link);
@@ -1826,11 +1827,10 @@ sub info {
   }
 
 
-  if ( $::commandline ) {
+  if ( %option ) {
       print @msgs;
   }
 
-
 }
 
 ## This will produce red.

gbootroot

@@ -231,39 +231,65 @@ BEGIN {
 	$ENV{'PATH'} = "/usr/sbin:" . $ENV{'PATH'};
     }
 
-    if ( !$ARGV[0] ) {
 
-	use Gtk;
-	init Gtk;
-	set_locale Gtk; 
+    use BootRoot::Options;
+    option();
+
+    $::commandline = \%option if %option;
+    $::commandline = $ARGV[0] if $ARGV[0];
+
+    if ( $Getopt::Long::error > 0 ) {
+	
+	exit;
 
     }
-    else {
 
-	$::commandline = $ARGV[0];
+
+    if ( !%option ) {
+	if ( !$::commandline  ) {
+
+	    use Gtk;
+	    init Gtk;
+	    set_locale Gtk; 
+
+	}	
 
     }
 
+
 }
 
 
 use strict;
 use BootRoot::BootRoot;
+#use BootRoot::Options;
+#use Getopt::Long;
 
 $main::editor = "emacs --font 6x13";
 $main::makefs = "mke2fs -F -m0 -i8192"; # Root Disk
 $main::sudo = "sudo";
 
+#print $option{"stdout"};
+#print %option;
+
 start();
 
-if ( !$ARGV[0] ) {
 
-    main Gtk;
-    exit( 0 );
+if ( !%option ) {
+    if ( !$::commandline  ) {
 
+	main Gtk;
+	exit( 0 );
+ 
+    }
 }
 
 
 
 
 
+
+
+
+
+