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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>
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: 2023-11-14T10:58:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 09.11.23 18:52, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Besides giving you a quick validity check of the XML, this also builds the
>> doc_generated, which draw from non-doc source files, so this would also
>> serve to check that those are sound and didn't mess up the docs.
> Unfortunately presence of xmllint doesn't guarantee presence of the relevant
> DTDs. Without docbook-xml installed, you'll get something like
> 
> ../../../../../home/andres/src/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml:21: warning: failed to load external entity"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"
> ]>
>    ^
> 
> and a bunch of other subsequent errors.
> 
> 
> 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.

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