[PATCH] Cygwin: Conditionally build documentation

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sat Jan 15 15:06:44 GMT 2022


On 14/01/2022 20:18, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>>
>> Add a configure option '--disable-doc' to disable building of the
>> documentation by the 'all' target.
>>
> 
> Can you please also add --disable-doc to "configure --help"?  It took
> me awhile to figure out which option I should use to skip the doc
> from building because it does no longer ignore doc build failure by
> default (unlike it used to do).

It is reported by 'configure --help', at the appropriate level (although 
since enable is the default, I probably should have written 
'--disable-doc' here).

 > jon@tambora /work/cygwin/src/winsup master
 > $ ./configure --help
[...]
 >   --enable-doc            Build documentation
[...]


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