On 20/07/2023 17.00, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 3:23 AM Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 18/07/2023 18.44, Matt Turner wrote:
>>> From: Jonas Rakebrandt <xarblu@protonmail.com>
>>>
>>> This works similar to cmake.eclass's ${CMAKE_VERBOSE}.
>>>
>>> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/28942
>>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Rakebrandt <xarblu@protonmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@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 :(

While the bash language has no boolean datatype, you can exploit the 
fact that 'true' and 'false' are usually shell builtins:

: "${MESON_VERBOSE:=true}"

and then later

if $MESON_VERBOSE; then
     mesoncompileargs+=( --verbose )
fi

- Flow