1582155 - add categorization to `./configure --help`

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, task)

Description

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

There's a lot of options, and a lot of environment variables. We'd be adding more output with categorization, but ideally some sort of categorization would make things more understandable.

Comment 1

[Ricky Stewart]

Attachment: Bug 1582155 - Add categorization to ./configure --help

Comment 2

[Ricky Stewart]

Attachment: ./configure --help

Have a patch that produces "./configure --help" output that looks like the following. Also adding machinery to tweak this further in the future if the auto-generated categories aren't appropriate. Any thoughts?

Comment 3

[Ricky Stewart]

It was brought to my attention that some of the options aren't being categorized in the right files -- I'll try to fix that before sending the patch out for review.

Comment 4

[Ricky Stewart]

Attachment: ./configure --help

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Wahou, excellent.
Thanks for doing it that!

Just a bike-shedding comment. Maybe as an empty line between category to facilitate the eye parsing?

Comment 6

[Ricky Stewart]

Attachment: ./configure --help

@sylvestre: Done.

Comment 7

[Ricky Stewart]

Attachment: ./configure --help

New configure --help output with the latest version of the patch.

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/015fd18edd63
Add categorization to ./configure --help r=firefox-build-system-reviewers,chmanchester

Comment 9

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

Push with failures: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=autoland&group_state=expanded&selectedJob=272189793&resultStatus=testfailed%2Cbusted%2Cexception&revision=015fd18edd63b060330657d665e8661f608b92c7&searchStr=windows%2C10%2Cx64%2Copt%2Cpython%2C2%2Cunit%2Ctests%2Csource-test-python-mozbuild-windows10-64%2Fopt-py2%2Cpy2%28mbu%29

Failure log: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=272189793&repo=autoland

Backout link: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/118aa8a35c792f37e0e2472119112f047b68fce6

Comment 10

[Ricky Stewart]

Some tests failed on Windows -- I've updated the revision to fix those failures and will re-land once my try push succeeds.

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/76ef444c6daa
Add categorization to ./configure --help r=firefox-build-system-reviewers,chmanchester

Comment 12

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/76ef444c6daa