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+# Related information:
+# https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=47865
+# https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=52474
+# https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=57683
+# http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.moose/2010/06/msg1767.html
+
+# Summary: If we disable the "auto_help" option in Getopt::Long, then
+# getoptions() will not call into pod2usage() (causing program termination)
+# when --help is passed.
+
+
+my $fail_on_exit = 1;
+{
+ package Class;
+ use strict; use warnings;
+
+ use Moose;
+ with
+ 'MooseX::SimpleConfig',
+ 'MooseX::Getopt';
+
+ # this is a hacky way of being able to check that we made it past the
+ # $opt_parser->getoptions() call in new_with_options, because it is
+ # still going to bail out later on, on seeing the --help flag
+ has configfile => (
+ is => 'ro', isa => 'Str',
+ default => sub {
+ $fail_on_exit = 0;
+ 'this_value_unimportant',
+ },
+ );
+
+ # only here to avoid an "unknown option: help" warning
+ has help => (
+ is => 'ro', isa => 'Bool',
+ );
+
+ no Moose;
+ 1;
+}
+
+use Test::More tests => 1;
+
+END {
+ ok(!$fail_on_exit, 'getoptions() lives');
+
+ # cancel the non-zero exit status from _getopt_full_usage()
+ exit 0;
+}
+
+
+@ARGV = ('--help');
+Class->new_with_options;
+