many scripts failed when reading no-version-check from global config file - 1361293

lib/OptionParser.pm

@@ -1132,6 +1132,16 @@ sub _read_config_file {
          $parse  = 0;
          next LINE;
       }
+
+      # Silently ignore option [no]-version-check if it is unsupported and it comes from a config file
+      # TODO: Ideally , this should be generalized for all unsupported options that come from global files
+      if (  $parse 
+            && !$self->has('version-check') 
+            && $line =~ /version-check/ 
+      ) {
+         next LINE;
+      }
+
       if ( $parse
          && (my($opt, $arg) = $line =~ m/^\s*([^=\s]+?)(?:\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*)?$/)
       ) {

lib/bash/parse_options.sh

@@ -347,6 +347,9 @@ _parse_config_files() {
          # Skip blank lines.
          [ "$config_opt" = "" ] && continue
 
+         # Skip global option [no]version-check which don't apply
+         echo "$config_opt" | grep -v 'version-check' >/dev/null 2>&1 || continue
+
          # Options in a config file are not prefixed with --,
          # but command line options are, so one or the other has
          # to add or remove the -- prefix.  We add it for config