[gobolinux-devel] Use flags specification

[Daniele Maccari]

Hisham wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
>>  > Or something like this:
>>  >
>>  > with_gtk1=(
>>  >   "--enable-gtk"
>>  >   "--disable-gtk"
>>  > )
>>  >
>>  > or more self-documenting:
>>  >
>>  > useflag_gtk1=(
>>  >   "with=--enable-gtk"
>>  >   "without=--disable-gtk"
>>  > )
>>  >
>>  > Those would be easy parsable by bash itself...
>>  >
>>  Sure, the possibilities are infinite :D
>>     
>
> True, but all the proposed variations just lighten the cumbersomeness
> in a syntactic manner. The problem is not the size of each entry but
> the number of entries and the implied maintenance issues. I find the
> approach Michael described in his original post to be a good
> compromise. And the $with_* variables scheme is especially smart!
>
> -- Hisham
That's true too, so a question arises: is there some simple way to do this?