[LTP] [PATCH 7/7] docparse/Makefile: Do not abort on missing generators

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Mon Oct 25 14:48:29 CEST 2021


Hi!
> > Since we want to use the metadata.json in the testrunner it must bte
> nit: typo s/bte/be
> 
> > build unconditionally.
> According to docs:
>   --with-metadata-generator=asciidoc|asciidoctor
>   --disable-metadata      Disable metadata generation (both HTML and PDF,
>                           default no)
>   --disable-metadata-html Disable metadata HTML generation (default no)
>   --enable-metadata-pdf   Enable metadata PDF generation (default no)
> 
> I'd like to have single option which does not create HTML and PDF (thus does not
> require asciidoc|asciidoctor. I wonder if we could change build system to keep
> --disable-metadata, build always docparse and json as we need, but with
> ./configured --disable-metadata just not run HTML and PDF generation?

I'm starting to think that the docparse.c should be moved to a
metadata/paraser.c and that we should keep the documentation generators
separate from the parser, that would allow us to keep all the configure
switches while metadata.json would be build and installed
unconditionally.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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