Wishlist: no target dir for trivial innodb options

Bug #1239793 reported by Jaime Crespo
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Percona XtraBackup moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PXB
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Bug Description

--help and --version should not return an error on innobackupex if no target dir is specified.

Found:
# innobackupex --version
innobackupex: Error: You must specify the backup directory.
# innobackupex --help
innobackupex: Error: You must specify the backup directory.

Expected:
# innobackupex --version
InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy
and Percona LLC and/or its affiliates 2009-2013. All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.
# innobackupex --help
(help is displayed)

Version tested:
xtrabackup version 2.1.5 for Percona Server 5.1.70 unknown-linux-gnu (x86_64) (revision id: 680)

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