%bcond_with is backwards?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Thu Dec 8 18:31:58 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:10:17PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> # conditionalize Ocaml support
> %ifarch sparc64 s390 s390x
> %bcond_with ocaml
> %else
> %bcond_without ocaml
> %endif
> 
> #...
> 
> %if %{with ocaml}
> BuildRequires:  ocaml
> BuildRequires:  ocaml-findlib-devel
> %endif
> 
> This code correctly disables OCaml support on architectures where we
> don't bother to compile OCaml (sparc64 s390 s390x).  But the
> conditional code looks backwards to me.  Does this make sense to
> anyone?

It makes sense when you read "%bcond_with ocaml" as 'add a
"--with-ocaml" build condition flag' to the spec.

Regards
Till


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