[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/6] doc/guides: rebuild with meson whenever a file changes

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:52 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Add proper support for calling sphinx whenever a file in the doc
> directory changes. This is accomplished by using a wrapper script
> for sphinx, which runs sphinx but also emits a gcc-format dependency
> file listing all the doc files. This is used by ninja so that any
> change to the doc files triggers a rebuild of the docs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                     |  1 +
>  buildtools/call-sphinx-build.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  buildtools/meson.build          |  6 ++++--
>  doc/guides/meson.build          | 22 ++++++++--------------
>  4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 buildtools/call-sphinx-build.py

Caught an issue on fc30:

[2094/2338] Generating html_guides with a custom command.
FAILED: doc/guides/html
/usr/bin/python3 ../../dpdk/buildtools/call-sphinx-build.py
/usr/libexec/python2-sphinx/sphinx-build
/home/dmarchan/dpdk/doc/guides
/home/dmarchan/builds/build-x86-default/doc/guides
sphinx-build 1.8.4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../../dpdk/buildtools/call-sphinx-build.py", line 15, in <module>
    ver = run([sphinx, '--version'], stdout=PIPE).stdout.decode().split()[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range

Double checked, the version went to stderr:

$ sphinx-build --version >/dev/null
sphinx-build 1.8.4
$ sphinx-build --version 2>/dev/null


-- 
David Marchand