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Re: meson documentation build open issues

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-07T16:34:08Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On November 7, 2023 7:55:37 AM PST, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> 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...

I think we should set up the meson stuff so that "install" and
"install-world" cover exactly what they did with "make".  Otherwise
there will be too much confusion.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. docs: meson: Change what 'docs' target builds

  2. meson: Add 'world' target

  3. meson: Document build targets, add 'help' target

  4. meson: docs: Add {html,man} targets, rename install-doc-*

  5. docs: Document --with-selinux/-Dselinux options centrally

  6. meson: Change default of 'selinux' feature option to auto

  7. meson: Fix doc installation path computation

  8. meson: Install missing example files

  9. meson: docs: Install all manpages, not just ones in man1

  10. meson: docs: Allow configuring simple/website style

  11. docs: html: load stylesheet via custom.css.source

  12. docs: html: copy images to output as part of xslt build

  13. meson: docs: Preparatory cleanups

  14. docs: Remove support for 'htmlhelp' format

  15. meson: add install-{docs,doc-html,doc-man} targets

  16. meson: add install-{quiet, world} targets

  17. meson: make install_test_files more generic, rename to install_files

  18. meson: rename html_help target to htmlhelp