RE: Enhancement of conditionals?

[Shah, Bijal]

The last mail wasn't quite ready... butterfingers :0

Bijal

The conditionals used make are very useful but can be difficult to work with where a variable might have a number of values.

Usually, this means you can be left with:

ifeq (0,$(FRED))
    FRED_PROCESS=$(call xxx,xxx)
then
ifeq (1,$(FRED))
    FRED_PROCESS=$(call yyy,yyy)
then
ifeq (2,$(FRED))
    FRED_PROCESS=$(call zzz,zzz)
then
    $(error FRED is not a value value.)
endif
endif
endif

This is quite difficult to maintain in some instants where the range of values for FRED is large.

I don't know if there is a better way of dealing with this using the syntax available today - any ideas anyone?

In the event of there being nothing, how possible would it be to add something approaching a "switch-case" like conditional added to make?

Maybe something like:

   caseeq (variable)
   in
      value pattern_1
         command_line_1
            . . .
         last_command_line
      endvalue
      value pattern_2
         command_line_1
            . . .
         last_command_line
      endvalue
      value pattern_3
         command_line_1
            . . .
         last_command_line
      endvalue
      value *
         command_1
            . . .
         last_command
      endvalue
   endcase

Opinions?
Bijal
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