On 04/02/20 11:39, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > >> Currently we insist on using 'sphinx-build' from the $PATH; >> allow the user to specify the binary to use. This will be >> more useful as we become pickier about the capabilities >> we require (eg needing a Python 3 sphinx-build). >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >> --- >> I went with the most common convention for specifying "here's >> an executable", like --make=, --install=, --python=.... >> >> The only odd one out for our current configure options seems to be >> that we want --with-git=GIT, not --git=GIT. You could argue that >> that's a better convention, > > It's the one Autoconf uses. > >> but it makes more sense to me to >> stick with the convention we currently mostly have. (Perhaps >> we should even change --with-git= to --git= ?) > > Paolo, any implications on the Meson conversion?
Nope, there will still be a handwritten configure script (and in the beginning it will be pretty much the same as now; in due time, it will handle command line parsing only). Paolo
