On 10:01 Sun 08 Mar , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 16:48 Sun 08 Mar , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 09:42:29 -0700 > > Donnie Berkholz <dberkh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > - I understand the reasoning for the SRC_CONFIGURE_WITH blah stuff. I > > > strongly oppose this implementation because it makes ebuilds less > > > like bash scripts that are easy to understand. Instead I suggest > > > extending use_with() and use_enable() to accept multiple sets of > > > arguments (alternately, making custom, similar functions that will > > > take multiple args). > > > > How would that work? I can't see an obvious way of doing it that isn't > > more or less as verbose as just using multiple calls. > > It would just eliminate all but one call to use_with(). Depending on how > many you've got, this can shorten things up a fair bit. Here's an > example: > > econf \ > $(use_with 'x X' 'foo libfoo' 'bar' 'python pygtk') > econf \ > $(use_with x X) \ > $(use_with foo libfoo) \ > $(use_with bar) \ > $(use_with python pygtk)
And the straightforward evolution of this would be additional with() and
enable() functions for mandatory support. I still find this more
intuitive than the set of variables.
econf \
$(use_with 'x X' 'foo libfoo' 'bar' 'python pygtk') \
$(with foo bar blah baz) \
$(enable bam paw tick)
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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