Re: options handling when there are LOTS of options

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:03:50PM -0600, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> Is there a way to make package options take a value, rather than simple
> binary (present/nonpresent) switches?  I've got a package with over 40
> possible drivers. I think it would be a lot easier to take a
> comma-delimited string and pass it straight to configure since that's
> the kind of format it's expecting, than to construct such a string from
> bunches of individual options.  Especially since its configure already
> supports "all,!driver" syntax.

You can just build the string with .for or the :@ construct.

Joerg

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