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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:31:14 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> 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.

OK. Works for me.

> 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.

In the case of the media doc, it is actually a matter of building
one rst file (linux_tv/index.rst). For that, I'm equally happy
if we specify it via <sourcedir> or via <filename>.

I suspect we'll end by needing filenames granularity in some future,
but, if you find easier to just handle <sorcedir> for now, that's
OK. 

Regards,
Mauro