Re: meson documentation build open issues

On 05.04.23 16:45, Andres Freund wrote:
>> I think it's still an issue that "make docs" builds html and man but "ninja
>> docs" only builds html. For some reason the wiki page actually claims that
>> ninja docs builds both, but this does not happen for me.
>
> It used to, but Tom insisted that it should not. I'm afraid that it's not
> quite possible to emulate make here. 'make docs' at the toplevel builds both
> HTML and manpages. But 'make -C doc/src/sgml', only builds HTML.

Ok, not a topic for this thread then.

>>> 5. There doesn't appear to be an equivalent of "make world" and "make
>>> install-world" that includes documentation builds.
>>
>> This has been addressed with the additional meson auto options. But it
>> seems that these options only control building, not installing, so there is
>> no "install-world" aspect yet.
>
> I'm not following - install-world install docs if the docs feature is
> available, and not if not?

I had expected that if meson setup enables the 'docs' feature, then
meson compile will build the documentation, which happens, and meson
install will install it, which does not happen.