On Sun, May 25 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote: >> Read Makefile.config and when line matches var = val assignment >> create _var='val' from it. var must match [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]* >> and val [^'\]* ('\' usually meaning multiline assignments). >> >> Write these lines to sh.config. >> >> sh.config can then be used e.g. in test scripts. > > I like the general idea here much better than [1] or the symlinks that > we have now. However I'm wary of the sed magic and the various ways it > might trip over. The resulting file has way more info than we need, but > then it also misses the multiline settings (which we luckily don't > need). > > At the risk of duplicating stuff, I'd go with manually generated config > for shell with minimal amount of information. For now, we'd only need > this for HAVE_XAPIAN_COMPACT and HAVE_MAN (the latter of which could > also be dropped from Makefile.config). I agree with this. It looks simpler and cleaner to an outside observer. I don't think the duplication of (one variable now) stuff is of any issue here (now or in foreseeable future). > > BR, > Jani. > > > [1] id:1399737224-79348-1-git-send-email-cceleri@cs.stanford.edu In any case, this sh.config to be useful sourcing of it needs to be added to test/test-lib.sh and then used in the followup patch of the above... Tomi >> --- >> configure | 5 +++++ >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/configure b/configure >> index 9bde2eb72b0e..feb0e480f86a 100755 >> --- a/configure >> +++ b/configure >> @@ -935,3 +935,8 @@ CONFIGURE_CXXFLAGS = -DHAVE_GETLINE=\$(HAVE_GETLINE) \$(GMIME_CFLAGS) \\ >> >> CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS = \$(GMIME_LDFLAGS) \$(TALLOC_LDFLAGS) \$(ZLIB_LDFLAGS) \$(XAPIAN_LDFLAGS) >> EOF >> + >> +# Create sh.config based on Makefile.config values. >> +# Output will be _var='val', val not containing ' nor \ (skipping multiline). >> +sed -n 's/^\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\) *= *\([^\\'\'']*\)$/_\1='\''\2'\''/p' \ >> + Makefile.config > sh.config >> -- >> 1.8.0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> notmuch mailing list >> notmuch@notmuchmail.org >> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch