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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>,
	"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] doc: allow the user to provide ASCIIDOC_EXTRA
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 07:39:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKJV8HBYCA7hEQiX@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60a24b25499c0_126a0520823@natae.notmuch>

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 05:53:25AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > It's meant for the caller of "make". Your proposed use is within
> > doc-diff, but any user running "make ASCIIDOC_EXTRA=foo" would see the
> > different behavior.
> 
> Yeah, they would, but I don't think it would be wrong behavior.

It depends what they're trying to do. If they write:

  make ASCIIDOC_EXTRA=--one-extra-option

then they probably intend to to add to the options we set. If they
write:

  make ASCIIDOC_EXTRA='-acompat-mode -atabsize=4 ...etc...'

with the intent of replicating the flags but changing or removing some
elements, then it would no longer do what they want.

I don't mean to imply one is more right than the other (I'd suspect even
that the override behavior is more likely to be what somebody wants).
I'm mostly pointing out that this is unlike the rest of our Makefiles,
which do not ever use override (and that the effect is visible to the
caller, depending on what they want to do).

> > I'd probably call it ASCIIDOC_FLAGS (like we have CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> > that are meant for users to inform us of extra flags they'd like
> > passed).
> 
> Right, but Makefiles do override those, like:
> 
>   override CFLAGS += -fPIC
> 
> Otherwise builds may fail.

Some Makefiles do, but in this project we have not historically used
override. Instead, we provide defaults for things like CFLAGS, expect
the use to replace them if they like, and then aggregate them (along
with other internal variables) into things like ALL_CFLAGS.

> > Of course that may not solve your problem in a sense; if you want
> > doc-diff to override it, then that might conflict with a theoretical
> > ASCIIDOC_FLAGS somebody set in their config.mak (but we really are in
> > the realm of hypothetical here).
> 
> Setting ASCIIDOC_FLAGS in config.mk would not override the
> user-supplied flags any more than setting them in the Makefile (they are
> virtually the same thing as one includes the other).
> 
> It's only if the user has `override ASCIIDOC_FLAGS` in config.mk that
> such a problem would arise. And that's really hypothetical.

I mean that if your doc-diff runs:

  make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=Yes ASCIIDOC_FLAGS=-adocdate=01/01/1970

then that will override anything the user put into config.mak. If they
had some option like:

  ASCIIDOC_FLAGS = --load-path=/some/special/directory

they need for asciidoctor to run correctly on their system, then things
would break for them. But we don't even have a user-facing
ASCIIDOC_FLAGS now, and nobody is asking for it, so it's pretty
hypothetical (I'd guess somebody in this situation would just set
ASCIIDOC="asciidoctor --load-path=...", and that already doesn't work
with doc-diff).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-14 12:14 [PATCH 00/11] doc: asciidoctor: direct man page creation and fixes Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 01/11] doc: allow the user to provide ASCIIDOC_EXTRA Felipe Contreras
2021-05-15  9:32   ` Jeff King
2021-05-15  9:39     ` Jeff King
2021-05-15 12:13       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17  8:57         ` Jeff King
2021-05-17 10:53           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 11:39             ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-05-17 16:50               ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 02/11] doc: doc-diff: allow more than one flag Felipe Contreras
2021-05-15  9:37   ` Jeff King
2021-05-15 12:11     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 03/11] doc: doc-diff: set docdate manually Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 15:43   ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-14 20:33     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 04/11] doc: use asciidoctor to build man pages directly Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 15:38   ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-14 20:26     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 05/11] doc: asciidoctor: add linkgit macros in man pages Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 06/11] doc: join mansource and manversion Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 07/11] doc: add man pages workaround for asciidoctor Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 08/11] doc: asciidoctor: add hack for xrefs Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 09/11] doc: asciidoctor: add hack to improve links Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 10/11] doc: asciidoctor: add support for baseurl Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 11/11] doc: asciidoctor: cleanup man page hack Felipe Contreras

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