Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Re: defines for geant

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 12:31, Sven Ehrke wrote:
> er...@go... schrieb am 22.10.01:
> > Andreas Leitner wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am cool with --define, I was just afraid that compile_* would be the
> > > _only_ way for passing options to geant.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether Sven already implemented the
> > command-line option --define, but I'm pretty sure
> > that it's on his TODO list somewhere because if
> > I remember correctly there is already support for
> > command-line defined variables in geant source code.
> 
> geant supports this on the commandline using the -D option:
> 
>   geant -Dparam1=value1 -Dparam2=value2 ...
> 
> (Yes, I know I have to work on the documentation)
> 
> I could change this of course if most of you would prefer the --define syntax.
> Just let me know.

I'd vote for --define="param1=val1 param2=val2", because this syntax
obeys the GNU command line conventions. And thus integrates well with
the majority of the other tools available as free software.

Andreas