[EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Conditionally build documentation

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Jan 18 19:57:40 GMT 2022


On 17/01/2022 19:39, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> It is reported by 'configure --help', at the appropriate level (although
>> since enable is the default, I probably should have written
>> '--disable-doc' here).
> 
> Can you please make it show as --disable-doc ?

It would almost be less typing for you to submit the change yourself :)

> Also, can you please make it visible in the top-level configure?

No.

None of the other configure flags supported by cygwin or newlib appear 
there.

The top-level files are owned by and maintained in the gcc repository.

Google "cygnus tree" or "cygnus uberbaum" for the history of this oddity.


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