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Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 at 01:03:27 +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 06:29:05PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> >  1. there should be a more easy way to override SPHINXBUILD in
> >     quickstart-generated Makefiles. IMHO, that means SPHINXBUILD?=
> >     instead of SPHINXBUILD=
> 
> Good suggestion, I have submitted a pull request upstream:
> https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/4092

I'm not sure this is necessary. If a Makefile has

	SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build
	# or := or ::=

	some-target:
		$(SPHINXBUILD) some-arguments

then you can override it on the command-line:

	make SPHINXBUILD="python3 -m sphinx"

without needing the ?= syntax. The ?= syntax is only necessary if you want
to pick up a value from the environment:

	export SPHINXBUILD="python3 -m sphinx"; make

or if your Makefile has complicated logic that may or may not have set it
already:

	ifeq(...)
		SPHINXBUILD = $(PYTHON) -m sphinx
	endif

	SPHINXBUILD ?= sphinx-build

The Makefiles generated by GNU Automake, which are very verbose but
generally also very good about doing the right thing in the face of
strange make(1) quirks, use plain "=".

(I've said the same on the upstream PR.)

Regards,
    smcv

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providing sphinx3-* binaries Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2017-09-27 00:30 +0200
  Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2017-09-28 00:10 +0200
    Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2017-09-28 09:40 +0200
    Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2017-09-28 14:30 +0200
      Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2017-09-28 19:00 +0200
        Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2017-09-28 19:20 +0200
  Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-09-29 13:00 +0200
    RE:providing sphinx3-* binaries PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr> - 2017-09-29 13:30 +0200
      Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 14:00 +0200
        RE:providing sphinx3-* binaries PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr> - 2017-09-29 14:20 +0200
      Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-10-03 23:50 +0200
        Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> - 2017-10-04 04:50 +0200
          Re: providing sphinx3-* binaries Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-10-04 11:50 +0200

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