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Re: meson documentation build open issues

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-08T11:04:30Z
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On 07.11.23 17:08, Andres Freund wrote:
>> 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.

Ok, I didn't know about ninja install-world.  That works for me.  Maybe 
a "world" target would also be good.

I played around with this a bit and noticed some files missing or in the 
wrong place.  See two attached patches (plus e9f075f9a1 already committed).

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