--enable-doc waf config option removed

James Browning jamesb.fe80 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 04:33:53 UTC 2020


On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:27 PM Eric S. Raymond via devel
<devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > On 2/2/20 3:44 PM, Jason Azze via devel wrote:
> > > It looks like the --enable-doc waf configuration option was removed in the commit "Add support for other asciidoc processors". Was there any discussion about this change?
> >
> > Yes. See the mailing list archive and MR !1037.
>
> That MR conflated at least two changes that shouldb have been made
> separately. And I don't see any rationale for the questionable part,
> which is changing the configuration default.
>
> Thios is partly my fault.  U've been concentrating pretty hard on the
> GCC conversionm for months and havem't exercised the oversight I
> should have.  Well, that epic is over; I'm back.
>
> OK, I reached the relevant devs on #ntpsec.  Will pursue there.

Attached is a mostly untested patch that removes --disable-doc,
re-adds --enable-doc, and fails to build both mostly silently if
there is not a valid toolset available.
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