case "$THIS_SUB_DEPENDS" in
     PYTHON) depends python "--with-python  " ;;
    PYTHON3) depends python3 "--with-python3" ;;
      GUILE) depends guile  "--with-guile"    ;;
       JAVA) depends JAVA   "--with-java"     ;;
       PERL) depends perl   "--with-perl5"    ;;
       RUBY) depends ruby   "--with-ruby"     ;;
        PHP) depends php    "--with-php"      ;;
        TCL) depends tcl    "--with-tcl"      ;;
*) message "${PROBLEM_COLOR}bogus sub_depends: $SPELL $THIS_SUB_DEPENDS${DEFAULT_COLOR}" ;
   return 1;;
esac
