Re: meson documentation build open issues

Hi,

On November 7, 2023 7:55:37 AM PST, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>On 03.11.23 19:19, Christoph Berg wrote:
>>>>> You can control this with the "docs" option for meson, as of recently.
>>>> I've been looking into switching the Debian PG 17 build to meson, but
>>>> I'm running into several problems.
>>>>
>>>> * The docs are still not built by default, and -Ddocs=enabled doesn't
>>>> change that
>>> Maybe I am missing something - they aren't built by default in autoconf
>>> either?
>> True, but the documentation (and this thread) reads like it should. Or
>> at least it should, when I explicitly say -Ddocs=enabled.
>>
>> What would also help is when the tail of the meson output had a list
>> of features that are enabled. There's the list of "External libraries"
>> which is quite helpful at figuring out what's still missing, but
>> perhaps this could be extended:
>>
>> Features
>> LLVM : YES (/usr/bin/llvm-config-16)
>> DOCS : YES (html pdf texinfo)
>>
>> Atm it's hidden in the long initial blurb of "Checking for.." and the
>> "NO" in there don't really stand out as much, since some of them are
>> normal.
>
>I don't feel like we have fully worked out how the docs options should fit together.
>
>With the make build system, there is a canonical sequence of
>
>make world
>make check-world
>make install-world
>
>that encompasses everything.
>
>Now with meson to handle the documentation one needs to remember a variety of additional targets. (There is a risk that once this gets more widespread, more people will submit broken documentation.)

install-world with meson also installs docs.

>I would like to have some set of options that enables it so that the standard documentation targets become part of "meson compile" and "meson install".

-0.5 - it's just too painfully slow. For all scripted uses you can just as well use install-world...

Andres
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