meson: Document build targets, add 'help' target

Currently important build targets are somewhat hard to discover. This commit
documents important meson build targets in the sgml documentation. But it's
awkward to have to lookup build targets in the docs when hacking, so this also
adds a 'help' target, printing out the same information. To avoid having to
duplicate information in two places, generate both docbook and interactive
docs from a single source.

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231108232121.ww542mt6lfo6f26f@awork3.anarazel.de
This commit is contained in:
Andres Freund 2023-11-20 17:46:40 -08:00
parent 6614cfb43c
commit 07cb29737a
8 changed files with 148 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ override XSLTPROCFLAGS += --stringparam pg.version '$(VERSION)'
GENERATED_SGML = version.sgml \
features-supported.sgml features-unsupported.sgml errcodes-table.sgml \
keywords-table.sgml wait_event_types.sgml
keywords-table.sgml targets-meson.sgml wait_event_types.sgml
ALLSGML := $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.sgml $(srcdir)/ref/*.sgml) $(GENERATED_SGML)
@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ keywords-table.sgml: $(top_srcdir)/src/include/parser/kwlist.h $(wildcard $(srcd
wait_event_types.sgml: $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/utils/activity/generate-wait_event_types.pl
$(PERL) $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/utils/activity/generate-wait_event_types.pl --docs $<
targets-meson.sgml: targets-meson.txt $(srcdir)/generate-targets-meson.pl
$(PERL) $(srcdir)/generate-targets-meson.pl $^ > $@
##
## Generation of some text files.
##

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@ -434,9 +434,9 @@ LOGLEVEL=-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.defaultlog=WARN
<title>Building the Documentation with Meson</title>
<para>
Two options are provided for building the documentation using Meson.
Change to the <filename>build</filename> directory before running
one of these commands, or add <option>-C build</option> to the command.
To build the documentation using Meson, change to the
<filename>build</filename> directory before running one of these commands,
or add <option>-C build</option> to the command.
</para>
<para>
@ -444,10 +444,9 @@ LOGLEVEL=-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.defaultlog=WARN
<screen>
<prompt>build$ </prompt><userinput>ninja html</userinput>
</screen>
To build all forms of the documentation:
<screen>
<prompt>build$ </prompt><userinput>ninja alldocs</userinput>
</screen>
For a list of other documentation targets see
<xref linkend="targets-meson-documentation"/>.
The output appears in the
subdirectory <filename>build/doc/src/sgml</filename>.
</para>

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@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
<!ENTITY high-availability SYSTEM "high-availability.sgml">
<!ENTITY installbin SYSTEM "install-binaries.sgml">
<!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "installation.sgml">
<!ENTITY targets-meson SYSTEM "targets-meson.sgml">
<!ENTITY installw SYSTEM "install-windows.sgml">
<!ENTITY maintenance SYSTEM "maintenance.sgml">
<!ENTITY manage-ag SYSTEM "manage-ag.sgml">

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@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Generate the targets-meson.sgml file from targets-meson.txt
# Copyright (c) 2000-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
use strict;
use warnings;
my $targets_meson_file = $ARGV[0];
open my $targets_meson, '<', $targets_meson_file or die;
print
"<!-- autogenerated from doc/src/sgml/targets-meson.txt, do not edit -->\n";
# Find the start of each group of targets
while (<$targets_meson>)
{
next if /^#/;
if (/^(.*) Targets:$/)
{
my $targets = $1;
my $targets_id = lc $targets;
print qq(
<sect3 id="targets-meson-$targets_id">
<title>$targets Targets</title>
<variablelist>
);
# Each target in the group
while (<$targets_meson>)
{
next if /^#/;
last if !/^\s+([^ ]+)\s+(.+)/;
my $target = $1;
my $desc = $2;
my $target_id = $1;
$target_id =~ s/\//-/g;
print qq(
<varlistentry id="meson-target-${target_id}">
<term><option>${target}</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
${desc}
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
);
}
print qq(
</variablelist>
</sect3>
);
}
}
close $targets_meson;

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@ -3200,6 +3200,21 @@ ninja install
</variablelist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="targets-meson">
<title><literal>meson</literal> Build Targets</title>
<para>
Individual build targets can be built using <command>ninja</command> <replaceable>target</replaceable>.
When no target is specified, everything except documentation is
built. Individual build products can be built using the path/filename as
<replaceable>target</replaceable>.
</para>
&targets-meson;
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="install-post">

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@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ doc_generated += custom_target('keywords-table.sgml',
capture: true,
)
doc_generated += custom_target('targets-meson.sgml',
input: files('targets-meson.txt'),
output: 'targets-meson.sgml',
command: [perl, files('generate-targets-meson.pl'), '@INPUT@'],
build_by_default: false,
install: false,
capture: true,
)
# For everything else we need at least xmllint
if not xmllint_bin.found()
subdir_done()

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@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
# Copyright (c) 2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
#
# Description of important meson targets, used for the 'help' target and
# installation.sgml (via generate-targets-meson.pl). Right now the parsers are
# extremely simple. Both parsers ignore comments. The help target prints
# everything else. For xml everything without a leading newline is a group,
# remaining lines are target separated by whitespace from their description
#
Code Targets:
all Build everything other than documentation
backend Build backend and related modules
bin Build frontend binaries
contrib Build contrib modules
pl Build procedual languages
Developer Targets:
reformat-dat-files Rewrite catalog data files into standard format
expand-dat-files Expand all data files to include defaults
update-unicode Update unicode data to new version
Documentation Targets:
html Build documentation in multi-page HTML format
man Build documentation in man page format
docs Build documentation in multi-page HTML and man page format
doc/src/sgml/postgres-A4.pdf Build documentation in PDF format, with A4 pages
doc/src/sgml/postgres-US.pdf Build documentation in PDF format, with US letter pages
doc/src/sgml/postgres.html Build documentation in single-page HTML format
alldocs Build documentation in all supported formats
Installation Targets:
install Install postgres, excluding documentation
install-docs Install documentation in multi-page HTML and man page formats
install-html Install documentation in multi-page HTML format
install-man Install documentation in man page format
install-quiet Like "install", but installed files are not displayed
install-world Install postgres, including multi-page HTML and man page documentation
uninstall Remove installed files
Other Targets:
clean Remove all build products
test Run all enabled tests (including contrib)
world Build everything, including documentation
help List important targets

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@ -3335,6 +3335,13 @@ alias_target('testprep', testprep_targets)
alias_target('world', all_built, docs)
alias_target('install-world', install_quiet, installdocs)
run_target('help',
command: [
perl, '-ne', 'next if /^#/; print',
files('doc/src/sgml/targets-meson.txt'),
]
)
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