On 29.03.23 18:25, Andres Freund wrote:
On 2023-03-29 18:15:02 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On 25.03.23 21:14, Andres Freund wrote:
I wonder if, for meson, the best behaviour would be to make 'docs' a feature
set to auto. If docs set to enabled, and the necessary tools are not
available, fail at that time, instead of doing so while building.
Makes sense to me.
If that's what we decide to do, perhaps "docs" should be split further? The
dependencies for pdf generation are a lot more heavyweight.
I think "docs" should be html and man, because that's what gets installed.
pdf and other things can just be an ad hoc build target and doesn't need
install support.
I just meant for feature detection.
Ah yes, then things like fop should either be a separate feature or just
do something light weight, like failing the target if fop isn't there.
