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alois31 5df2cccc49
doc: install the HTML manual again
In 0e6b3435a1, installation of the HTML manual
was accidentally dropped: setting install_dir on a custom_target only sets the
directory where something is going to be installed if it is installed at all,
but does not itself trigger installation. The latter has to be explicitly
requested, which is just what we do here to get the manual back.

Change-Id: Iff8b791de7e7cb4c8d747c2a9b1154b5fcc32fe0
2024-10-05 10:49:34 +02:00
Olivia Crain 0e6b3435a1
build: install html manual without using install_subdir
In Meson, `install_subdir` is meant to be used with directories in the source
directory. When using it to install the HTML manual, we provide it with a path
under the build directory.

We should instead specify an install directory for the HTML manual as part of
the custom target that builds it.

What we do currently isn't broken, just semantically incorrect. Changing it does
get rid of the following deprecation warning, though:

``
Project [...] uses feature deprecated since '0.60.0': install_subdir with empty directory. It worked by accident and is buggy. Use install_emptydir instead.
``

Change-Id: I259583b7bdff8ecbb3b342653d70dc5f034c7fad
2024-09-27 11:55:28 -05:00
jade 84543b459c doc: fix broken meson deps for various manuals outputs
This is incredibly haunted, but it can happen that you change libutil,
breaking the generation of the .json files, which then does not rebuild
the files. I don't expect they are slow to build, so it does not seem so
bad to just rebuild them every time instead of extracting a list of all
the possible deps.

We want to delete this nonsense anyway and replace it with generated
code.

Change-Id: Ia576d1a3bdee48fbaefbb5ac194354428d179a84
2024-08-18 15:19:15 -07:00
piegames 49d61b2e4b libexpr: Introduce Deprecated features
They are like experimental features, but opt-in instead of opt-out. They
will allow us to gracefully remove language features. See #437

Change-Id: I9ca04cc48e6926750c4d622c2b229b25cc142c42
2024-08-17 19:47:51 +02:00
Qyriad ff99f4a882 build: correctly propagate changes to Lix source to manual
This adds the nix executable as an input argument to the custom targets
that build the manual (HTML, and the man pages), so that changes to
things like src/nix/nix.md cause the correct rebuilds

Change-Id: Iffaa2c14acbfc721caef7b8cae9b53ecd365f26d
2024-06-16 03:43:17 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 8458d98b27 Rename nix show-config to nix config show
Part of #7672

My main motivation is to be able to use `nix.checkConfig`[1]. This
doesn't work with Lix currently since the module uses `nix show-config`
if the Nix version is <2.20pre and `nix config show` otherwise. I think
this is the only instance where nixpkgs checks for which Nix commands
exist that affects us now, so I figured we could just perform the rename
here as well[2] and still provide the current version number[3].

I don't have a strong opinion on whether to deprecate `nix show-config`,
the warning is added there automatically.

(cherry picked from commit f300e11b056dea414d7d77bbc6e5a7dc5d9ddd41)

[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options.html#opt-nix.checkConfig
[2] I should add that I don't use the "official" ways of installing Lix
    because using the flake directly and callPackaging it seemed to fit
    better into my workflow: I already have a little mess to make
    sure Hydra from the flake uses the correct pkgs.nix and I didn't
    want to complicate it further while keeping a single package-set I
    can build in CI. Don't get me wrong, I think such a module for a
    quick-start is very important, just giving context on why I bother
    in the first place :)
[3] When we go public, I think it's worth considering to add support in
    nixpkgs itself for Lix.

Change-Id: I47b4239b05cbeda3c370d2fa56ea768b768768ac
2024-05-03 16:26:16 +02:00
eldritch horrors adab839c98 manual: build docs with dummy envs
this was previously used because the macOS docs build would otherwise
pull files out of the host nix store. or something. not sure about it

Change-Id: I76b51eac1ebc5de5f00e2e4be086dd8db3eeb8e6
2024-04-11 13:36:04 +00:00
eldritch horrors 725f5cd358 docs: redo content generation for mdbook and manual
manpages can be rendered using the markdown output of mdbook, the rest
of the manual can generated out of the main doc/manual source tree. we
still use lowdown to actually render manpages instead of eg mdbook-man
because lowdown does generate reasonably good manpages (though that is
also somewhat debatable, but they're a lot better than mdbook-man).

doing this not only lets us drastically simplify the lowdown pipeline,
but also remove all custom {{#include}} handling since now mdbook does
all of it, even for the manpage builds. even the lowdown wrapper isn't
entirely necessary because lowdown can take all wrapper arguments with
command line flags rather than bits of input file content.

This also implements running mdbook in Meson, in order to generate the
manpages. The mdbook outputs are also installed in the usual location.

Co-authored-by: Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me>

Change-Id: I60193f9fd0f15d48872f071af35855cda2a0f40b
2024-04-11 13:32:06 +00:00
Qyriad 723ddadf92 docs: generalize manpage generation script as json-to-tree.py
This should be capable of replacing every invocation of
nix eval --write-to.

Change-Id: I60387bc9b0fc54a91244eddb639beaa64d705878
2024-04-10 15:04:34 +02:00
Qyriad 5bac308c7c meson: fix warm nix3 CLI manual generation
`nix eval --write-to` refuses to write to a directory that exists at
all, so now we generate in a temporary directory, and copy the generated
tree to the build directory. This is equivalent to what the Make
buildsystem did, actually, but hopefully more robust.

Future work: documenting the doc generation architecture in the
top-level meson.build outline comment.

Change-Id: Ic3eb6d26e3cc249a1c042fd3ced22d637ac66a69
2024-04-06 14:43:14 -06:00
Qyriad 9166babbaf Revert "meson: move nix3 manpage generation into command-ref/"
This reverts commit 7095423374.

This seems to have broken running ninja on warm build directories, which
is not what we want. Reverted until we figure out something better

Change-Id: I9623ae078917e7c59a930bf8044a216501d4bb20
2024-04-04 11:59:08 -06:00
Qyriad c96c5db030 meson: move nix3 manpage generation into command-ref/
This puts the generated files where they are for the make system.
This is in preparation for further meson-mdbook stuff.

Change-Id: I934df6854a80af5ccf381cf1da0bda0187a8bcfc
2024-04-03 13:52:56 -06:00
eldritch horrors d2aca15f31 doc: remove the -- unescaping hack
lowdown has an option to disable this behavior. use it.

Change-Id: I06d4201b7f528021ddb8e94ac6baff385402e080
2024-04-01 20:15:28 +00:00
eldritch horrors 351c1a9c52 meson: build and install nix3 manpages
this notably does *not* install the `nix3-manpages` manpage the old
system generated, mostly because that page was empty and just a bug
with a coat of documentation paint.

Change-Id: I7a4248a72e7bb5e0cc925a6311a33b6b72589569
2024-03-30 14:26:47 +00:00
eldritch horrors bfbcc3352b meson: add manpages for old cli and config files
Change-Id: I93384ec774d1945a649f6aaf7cd967c3fb7197f9
2024-03-30 14:26:47 +00:00