Angular-cli: ng build <project> --<some-flag> results in 'Unknown option: --<some-flag>'

[arm1n]

Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an x)

- [x] bug report
- [ ] feature request

Command (mark with an x)

- [ ] new
- [x] build
- [ ] serve
- [ ] test
- [ ] e2e
- [ ] generate
- [ ] add
- [ ] update
- [ ] lint
- [ ] xi18n
- [ ] run
- [ ] config
- [ ] help
- [ ] version
- [ ] doc

Versions

Node: v10.6.0
NPM: v6.1.0
CLI: v6.2.2
Mac OSX El Capitan (10.11.6)

Repro steps

I've just tested some flags like --delete-output-path, --output-path and --build-optimizer or --vendor-chunk. I know that it uses --prod implicitly and supports --watch since latest upgrade.

ng generate library my-lib
ng build my-lib --delete-output-path=false

The log given by the failure

Unknown option: --deleteOutputPath

Desired functionality

The ng build command should provide the same functionality for libraries as for usual projects.

[hansl]

Hey @arm1n ,

What version of the CLI are you using? Please run ng version from your project and paste the result here. Thanks!

[alan-agius4]

This is correctly erroring out as the library builder doesn’t support these flags.

Those flags are valid for the application builder. Building a library has different pipeline then building an application thus it cannot have the same flags, for instance build-optimizer or vendor-chunks cannot be used in libraries among others.

Valid flags for library builder are watch and tsConfig

[arm1n]

@hansl As stated in the issue I'm using 6.2.2.
@alan-agius4 If that's the case then please update the docs, it reads as all flags are also supported for libraries. Despite that I think at least some flags should also work for library builds. Especially everything related to dist folder, as these flags were introduced to support valid use cases - f.e. hosting the compiled library on private git repos etc.

[denisoby]

I'd also expect many of flags to be working with libraries builder
--poll
--forked-type-checker
--verbose
and so on

So voting for @arm1n comment above :)

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