Re: meson documentation build open issues

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-11-15T00:26:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2023-11-14 11:58:53 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 09.11.23 18:52, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I think if we want to do this, we'd need a configure time check for being able
> > to validate a document with
> > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN""http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"...
> 
> We used to have exactly such a check in configure, but it was removed in
> 4823c4f6ac.  I suppose we could look into reviving that.

Yea, that change was obsoleted by xmllint/xsltproc not being able to fetch the
dtd over network anymore... And the performance issue 4823c4f6ac notes also
doesn't apply anymore, as we use -nonet since 969509c3f2e.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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