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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:40:27
Message-Id: 20080907164015.1a7b4f8e@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile by Vaeth
1 On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:31:37 +0200 (CEST)
2 Vaeth <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > Santiago M. Mola wrote:
4 > > Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o> wrote:
6 > > >> DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_USE_{WITHS,ENABLES}
7 > > >> DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_PARAMS
8 >
9 > Essentially, this is the suggestion to replace the flexible shell code
10 > by some static variables. Besides being less intuitive and less
11 > readable (you have to know the meaning of all the variables to
12 > understand it) it also works only for fixed cases, e.g. if it is
13 > only ./configure (and not ./autogen.sh or something else) which has
14 > to be called, and only if it has to be called exactly once in the
15 > main directory For all other cases, either *everything* has to be
16 > done manually, or you have to introduce even more variables to cover
17 > more cases.
18
19 The proposal is not designed to replace all cases. It's designed to
20 replace the common 50%.
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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