getoptions(): parse the options during main() call on cpt-lib

Calling parse() after cpt-lib has been called causes sys_db to be initiated
using the wrong CPT_ROOT, among other issues. By calling the option parser
during the main(), we make sure that the options parsed are used as soon as
possible.

FossilOrigin-Name: 2933b99bec8ec9c3f20143e2a19c270a6d208f723d2b394c625cbc13d2625326

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/cpt-lib b/src/cpt-lib
index a9522e8..e5d526a 100644
--- a/src/cpt-lib
+++ b/src/cpt-lib
@@ -1777,6 +1777,14 @@ create_cache() {
 main() {
     set -ef
 
+    # If a parser definition exists, let's run it ourselves. This makes sure we
+    # get the variables as soon as possible.
+    command -v parser_definition >/dev/null && {
+        eval "$(getoptions parser_definition parse "$0")"
+        parse "$@"
+        eval set -- "$REST"
+    }
+
     # Create the cache directories for CPT and set the variables which point
     # to them. This is seperate from temporary directories created in
     # create_cache(). That's because we need these variables set on most