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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:09:22 +0400
From:      Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bsd.port.options.mk status
Message-ID:  <20070912130921.GA77497@amilo.cenkes.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070912121830.GA84207@charon.picobyte.net>
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:18:31PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:00:14AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > 
> > So am I missing something or is it as trivial as using these four
> > lines instead of one:
> > 
> > USEOPTIONSMK=	yes
> > INOPTIONSMK=	yes
> > .include "bsd.port.mk"
> > .undef INOPTIONSMK
> 
> This is even uglier than our existing work-around solutions. :-)

You snipped the question I was trying to answer, which was "is it
possible?" Now IMHO the current way of handling options is ugly
as a whole. We're trying to use paradigms from other languages in
make. A make solution would look more like this:
 SOMELIST=	FOO BAR BAZ
 WITH_FOO_CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-foo
 WITHOUT_BAZ_PLIST_SUB+=	BAZ="@comment "
other BSD's have used this approach for some time now and it
looks a lot cleaner than all the hacks we have, at least to my
eyes. The reason I'm not rallying for cosmetics like that is that 
I fail to see make(1) as a future-proof base for ports.



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