[PATCH 0/3] ci: don't compile whole project when testing docs with Meson

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Sep 11, 2025, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20250911-b4-pks-meson-docs-target-v1-0-a92c666ecef9@pks.im>

Hi,

these two patches introduce a new "docs" alias into Meson and use it in our "documentation" CI jobs so that we stop compiling all of Git only to verify the generated manpages. This fixes the issue reported by Gábor in [1].

Thanks!

Patrick

[1]: <aLCf0UaTxy5Nxpv/@szeder.dev>

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Patrick Steinhardt (3):
      meson: introduce a "docs" alias to compile documentation only
      meson: print docs backend as part of the summary
      ci: don't compile whole project when testing docs with Meson

 Documentation/howto/meson.build     |  4 ++--
 Documentation/meson.build           |  8 ++++----
 Documentation/technical/meson.build |  4 ++--
 ci/test-documentation.sh            |  4 ++--
 contrib/contacts/meson.build        |  4 ++--
 contrib/subtree/meson.build         |  4 ++--
 meson.build                         | 10 ++++++++++
 7 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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