On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 3:23 AM Florian Schmaus <f...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 18/07/2023 18.44, Matt Turner wrote:
> > From: Jonas Rakebrandt <xar...@protonmail.com>
> >
> > This works similar to cmake.eclass's ${CMAKE_VERBOSE}.
> >
> > Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/28942
> > Signed-off-by: Jonas Rakebrandt <xar...@protonmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org>
> > ---
> > eclass/meson.eclass | 15 +++++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/eclass/meson.eclass b/eclass/meson.eclass
> > index 2c274b213191..3b30f66bf30a 100644
> > --- a/eclass/meson.eclass
> > +++ b/eclass/meson.eclass
> > @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ BDEPEND=">=dev-util/meson-0.62.2
> > # Build directory, location where all generated files should be placed.
> > # If this isn't set, it defaults to ${WORKDIR}/${P}-build.
> >
> > +# @ECLASS_VARIABLE: MESON_VERBOSE
> > +# @USER_VARIABLE
> > +# @DESCRIPTION:
> > +# Set to OFF to disable verbose messages during compilation
> > +: "${MESON_VERBOSE:=ON}"
> > +
> > # @ECLASS_VARIABLE: EMESON_BUILDTYPE
> > # @DESCRIPTION:
> > # The buildtype value to pass to meson setup.
> > @@ -385,10 +391,15 @@ meson_src_compile() {
> > -C "${BUILD_DIR}"
> > --jobs "$(makeopts_jobs "${MAKEOPTS}" 0)"
> > --load-average "$(makeopts_loadavg "${MAKEOPTS}" 0)"
> > - --verbose
> > - "$@"
> > )
> >
> > + case ${MESON_VERBOSE} in
> > + OFF) ;;
> > + *) mesoncompileargs+=( --verbose ) ;;
> > + esac
>
> No strong opinion, just to educate myself, but is there an advantage of
> using case/easc over if/fi here?
>
> That is
>
> if [[ ${MESON_VERBOSE} != off ]]; then
> mesoncompileargs+=( --verbose )
> fi
>
> or even the shell-style short idiom using ||.
No advantage as far as I'm aware. I was just copying the style used in
cmake.eclass.
I really wish bash just had boolean types :(
