On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:52 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > These patches make some improvements to the meson build, particularly > for documentation. They also remove many, but not all warnings issued by > meson e.g. warnings about newer features unsupported in baseline. > > The biggest change is to improve the handling of the guide html docs. > The change here is more significant, and the doc build now uses a > wrapper script around sphinx. This wrapper script allows us to output > correct dependency information for the sphinx build in a .d file. This > .d file is processed by ninja (not meson) on build, so that any changes > to doc files trigger a rebuild to the guides using sphinx. > > For now, the two patches which remove the meson version warnings are > CC'ed to stable for backport, theoretically this who set could be > backported if so desired, as all changes could be considered fixes to > some degree or other, and nothing introduces a whole new feature. > > Note: for completeness and simplicity, previously submitted patch > http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/64189/ is included in this set, and will > be marked superceded in patchwork. > > V4: fix build with older sphinx > > V3: Shorten the python code in patch 5, and ensure style compliance as > flagged by Aaron. > > V2: resend to correct email addresses
Tried this series in Travis. It went fine through my own checks too. But OBS is not happy with Debian 10, Debian Next and Ubuntu >= 18.04. The packaging fails when ninja can't find the 'doc' target. -- David Marchand
