Question about new options framework (regression?)

[Oliver Fromme]

Doug Barton wrote:
 > Traditionally the precedence has been:
 > 
 > make.conf < OPTIONS < command line

Are you sure?  But how did the old framework find out if a
WITH_* / WITHOUT_* variable came from make.conf or from the
command line?

For example, say the make environment contains WITH_FOO=YES,
but the OPTIONS file contains WITHOUT_FOO=YES.  If the above
precedence is to be followed, then the framework needed to
find out whether the WITH_FOO setting came from make.conf or
from the command line.  I don't think there's an easy way to
do that.

Best regards
   Oliver


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