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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:04:58
Message-Id: 20110914030406.GB5106@localhost.hobnob.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new `usex` helper by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:45:27PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 19:08:09 Brian Harring wrote:
3 > > Making it overridable seems wiser-
4 > >
5 > > usex() {
6 > > local flag="$1"
7 > > local tval=${2-yes}
8 > > local fval=${3-no}
9 > > if use $flag; then
10 > > echo "${tval}"
11 > > else
12 > > echo "${fval}"
13 > > fi
14 > > }
15 >
16 > i dont get it. mine already does exactly this, just in one line.
17 > usex() { use $1 && echo ${2:-yes} || echo ${3:-no} ; }
18
19 Err. Mines prettier?
20
21 *cough*
22
23 Only real difference is ${2:-yes} versus ${2-yes}; the latter should
24 be used so that `usex flag '' '--disable-some-feature'` is usable.
25
26
27 > > While a bit longer, we likely can gut most of the use_* logic to
28 > > use that, and it makes it easier to deal w/ the situations where a
29 > > configure's options always assume --enable-blah thus don't export the
30 > > option, but *do* export a --disable-blah.
31 >
32 > yeah, i thought about replacing use_{with,enable} with usex, but we'd have to
33 > extend usex() a little bit more
34
35 Only extension I can think of is adding a prefix/postfix... which
36 frankly seems a bit too much. Anything else you were looking for?
37
38 To be clear, I'm more interested in this from the standpoint of making
39 econf invocations simpler- simplifying use_enable/use_with in the PM
40 isn't a huge concern to me since they're already pretty bloody
41 straightforward at this point.
42
43 ~brian

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