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

[Jon Turney]

On 15/01/2022 23:00, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2022-01-15 12:06, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via 
> Cygwin-patches 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).
>>
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> 
> It looks like it's not propagated to newlib-cygwin/configure, and 
> newlib-cygwin/configure --help=recursive seems to loop recursing on 
> newlib 4.2.0, so it's only shown by winsup/configure:

In my testing, it seems that a top-level './configure --help=recursive' 
terminates eventually, it's just that there are also configures in 
subdirectories of newlib (for no good reason I know of), which makes it 
spend a long time repeating mostly useless output...