qemu/docs/meson.build
Peter Maydell b93f4fbdc4 docs: Build and install all the docs in a single manual
When we first converted our documentation to Sphinx, we split it into
multiple manuals (system, interop, tools, etc), which are all built
separately.  The primary driver for this was wanting to be able to
avoid shipping the 'devel' manual to end-users.  However, this is
working against the grain of the way Sphinx wants to be used and
causes some annoyances:
 * Cross-references between documents become much harder or
   possibly impossible
 * There is no single index to the whole documentation
 * Within one manual there's no links or table-of-contents info
   that lets you easily navigate to the others
 * The devel manual doesn't get published on the QEMU website
   (it would be nice to able to refer to it there)

Merely hiding our developer documentation from end users seems like
it's not enough benefit for these costs.  Combine all the
documentation into a single manual (the same way that the readthedocs
site builds it) and install the whole thing.  The previous manual
divisions remain as the new top level sections in the manual.

 * The per-manual conf.py files are no longer needed
 * The man_pages[] specifications previously in each per-manual
   conf.py move to the top level conf.py
 * docs/meson.build logic is simplified as we now only need to run
   Sphinx once for the HTML and then once for the manpages5B
 * The old index.html.in that produced the top-level page with
   links to each manual is no longer needed

Unfortunately this means that we now have to build the HTML
documentation into docs/manual in the build tree rather than directly
into docs/; otherwise it is too awkward to ensure we install only the
built manual and not also the dependency info, stamp file, etc.  The
manual still ends up in the same place in the final installed
directory, but anybody who was consulting documentation from within
the build tree will have to adjust where they're looking.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210115154449.4801-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2021-01-19 15:45:14 +00:00

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if get_option('sphinx_build') == ''
sphinx_build = find_program(['sphinx-build-3', 'sphinx-build'],
required: get_option('docs'))
else
sphinx_build = find_program(get_option('sphinx_build'),
required: get_option('docs'))
endif
# Check if tools are available to build documentation.
build_docs = false
if sphinx_build.found()
SPHINX_ARGS = ['env', 'CONFDIR=' + qemu_confdir, sphinx_build]
# If we're making warnings fatal, apply this to Sphinx runs as well
if get_option('werror')
SPHINX_ARGS += [ '-W' ]
endif
# This is a bit awkward but works: create a trivial document and
# try to run it with our configuration file (which enforces a
# version requirement). This will fail if sphinx-build is too old.
run_command('mkdir', ['-p', tmpdir / 'sphinx'])
run_command('touch', [tmpdir / 'sphinx/index.rst'])
sphinx_build_test_out = run_command(SPHINX_ARGS + [
'-c', meson.current_source_dir(),
'-b', 'html', tmpdir / 'sphinx',
tmpdir / 'sphinx/out'])
build_docs = (sphinx_build_test_out.returncode() == 0)
if not build_docs
warning('@0@ is either too old or uses too old a Python version'
.format(sphinx_build.full_path()))
if get_option('docs').enabled()
error('Install a Python 3 version of python-sphinx')
endif
endif
endif
if build_docs
SPHINX_ARGS += ['-Dversion=' + meson.project_version(), '-Drelease=' + config_host['PKGVERSION']]
sphinx_extn_depends = [ meson.source_root() / 'docs/sphinx/depfile.py',
meson.source_root() / 'docs/sphinx/hxtool.py',
meson.source_root() / 'docs/sphinx/kerneldoc.py',
meson.source_root() / 'docs/sphinx/kernellog.py',
meson.source_root() / 'docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py',
meson.source_root() / 'docs/sphinx/qmp_lexer.py',
qapi_gen_depends ]
man_pages = {
'qemu-ga.8': (have_tools ? 'man8' : ''),
'qemu-ga-ref.7': 'man7',
'qemu-qmp-ref.7': 'man7',
'qemu-storage-daemon-qmp-ref.7': (have_tools ? 'man7' : ''),
'qemu-img.1': (have_tools ? 'man1' : ''),
'qemu-nbd.8': (have_tools ? 'man8' : ''),
'qemu-pr-helper.8': (have_tools ? 'man8' : ''),
'qemu-storage-daemon.1': (have_tools ? 'man1' : ''),
'qemu-trace-stap.1': (config_host.has_key('CONFIG_TRACE_SYSTEMTAP') ? 'man1' : ''),
'virtfs-proxy-helper.1': (have_virtfs_proxy_helper ? 'man1' : ''),
'virtiofsd.1': (have_virtiofsd ? 'man1' : ''),
'qemu.1': 'man1',
'qemu-block-drivers.7': 'man7',
'qemu-cpu-models.7': 'man7'
}
sphinxdocs = []
sphinxmans = []
private_dir = meson.current_build_dir() / 'manual.p'
output_dir = meson.current_build_dir() / 'manual'
input_dir = meson.current_source_dir()
this_manual = custom_target('QEMU manual',
build_by_default: build_docs,
output: 'docs.stamp',
input: files('conf.py'),
depfile: 'docs.d',
depend_files: sphinx_extn_depends,
command: [SPHINX_ARGS, '-Ddepfile=@DEPFILE@',
'-Ddepfile_stamp=@OUTPUT0@',
'-b', 'html', '-d', private_dir,
input_dir, output_dir])
sphinxdocs += this_manual
install_subdir(output_dir, install_dir: qemu_docdir, strip_directory: true)
these_man_pages = []
install_dirs = []
foreach page, section : man_pages
these_man_pages += page
install_dirs += section == '' ? false : get_option('mandir') / section
endforeach
sphinxmans += custom_target('QEMU man pages',
build_by_default: build_docs,
output: these_man_pages,
input: this_manual,
install: build_docs,
install_dir: install_dirs,
command: [SPHINX_ARGS, '-b', 'man', '-d', private_dir,
input_dir, meson.current_build_dir()])
alias_target('sphinxdocs', sphinxdocs)
alias_target('html', sphinxdocs)
alias_target('man', sphinxmans)
endif