Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

[Alec Warner]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o> wrote:
> Hi,
>        Currently we have a lot of:
>                src_configure() {
>                        econf $(use_enable dvdr) \
>                                $(use_with ipv6 ssl) \
>                                --with-system-zlib
>                }
>
>        Introducing(Idea shamelessly taken from Exherbo):
>                DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_USE_{WITHS,ENABLES}
>                DEFAULT_SRc_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_PARAMS
>
>        The code from above could be rewritten like so:
>
>        DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_USE_ENABLES=( 'dvdr' )
>        DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_USE_WITHS=( 'ipv6 ssl' )
>        DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_PARAMS=( '--with-system-zlib' )
>
>        That's much simpler.

It saves you 1 line and reduces readability and intuitiveness by a
fair margin; how is it simpler?

>
>        Also taken from Exherbo, DEFAULT_SRC_COMPILE_PARAMS could be used to
>        append parameters to emake like so:
>
>                src_compile() {
>                        emake buildtarget
>                }
>
>        which would be replaced by:
>                DEFAULT_SRC_COMPILE_PARAMS=( 'buildtarget' )
>
>        This was originally proposed in bug #230725[1]
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230725
>