Re: [docs-next PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: skip build if user requested specific DOCBOOKS

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Fri,  1 Jul 2016 15:24:44 +0300
> Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
>> If the user requested specific DocBooks to be built using 'make
>> DOCBOOKS=foo.xml htmldocs', assume no Sphinx build is desired. This
>> check is transitional, and can be removed once we drop the DocBook
>> build.
>
> I guess this is actually a wrong assumption. I mean, it is valid to
> build multiple documents at the same time. Sometimes I do things
> like:
> 	make DOCBOOKS="media_api.xml device-drivers.xml" htmldocs
>
> When I want both docs to be compiled.
>
> What I would be expecting is that Sphinx would be looking into
> the DOCBOOKS targets and see if (some) of them belongs to it.
>
> Alternatively, we could add a separate makefile var for the
> Sphinx targets, but the logic would be more complex, as it
> should:

Please let's not conflate DOCBOOKS to mean something other than
DocBooks. I think it'll be easier that way.

So I guess we'll need a way to build just a subset of the Sphinx
documentation. I would like that to be a somewhat generic thing, not
requiring a separate conf file for each subset. Is the granularity of a
directory enough? I've been meaning to look into passing different
<sourcedir> and <filenames> to sphinx-build for this, but I don't have
the time now.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center