[gobolinux-devel] Compile "variants"

[Michael Homer]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
> What about the concept of Compile "variants" like MacPorts 'port'
>  command uses?
>
>  Their portfiles (like compile receipt) can contain stuff like this:
>
>  configure.args  --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --disable-flac
>  variant flac {
>   depends_lib     port:flac
>   configure.args-delete   --disable-flac
>   configure.args-append   --enable-flac
>  }
>
>  this is used like 'port install libsndfile +flac'.
>
>  It may even be possible to combine multiple variants...
See the long and involved discussions of useflags on the list in the
past, and the UseFlags script [1] in tools. We're going to make a new
Scripts release soon, I gather, so I'll post a specification of how
they all work in the next couple of days.

[1] http://svn.gobolinux.org/file.php?repname=tools&path=%2Ftrunk%2FScripts%2Fbin%2FUseFlags
-Michael