Re: [PATCH 135/147] meson: sphinx-build

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 20:46, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/08/20 21:36, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> It should be possible and probably not too hard once I figure out how
> >> Sphinx events work.  It's a fair request since build_always_stale is
> >> inferior and Meson requires no particular magic to include the depfile.
> >>  Maybe that will win you over. :)
> >>
> >> I can also leave out sphinx from the initial conversion.
> > If we have a working-but-build-always conversion for Sphinx
> > I'd be happy to take that and then upgrade it to processing
> > the dependencies properly later.
> >
> > (The thing I'm not really looking forward to is updating
> > the qapi-doc-to-rst patchset to Meson...)
>
> Since it's all handled internally by sphinx, I think you only need to
> add the man pages to the dictionary, and get rid of the corresponding
> Texinfo outputs in qapi/meson.build and qga/meson.build?

The patchset has a fair amount of change to the makefiles:
 Makefile                                   |  86 +---
 rules.mak                                  |  14 +-


> In other words, it should be just this:

...so if it's that simple that would be nice.

-- PMM