Re: [PULL 00/35] Testing, docs, semihosting and plugin updates

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 at 18:07, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>> > I think this is "you can't put labels in qemu-options.hx,
>> > because it gets included in two .rst files (invocation.rst
>> > and qemu-manpage.rst), and Sphinx complains about the
>> > duplicate labels, even though one of the two files is
>> > only used in the HTML and one is only used in the manpages".
>>
>> Oh boo - anyway to work around that because they are helpful links?
>
> Nothing easy. The problem is that Sphinx looks at every .rst
> file in the source directory, regardless of whether it's
> reachable from the document you specify as the root of the
> manual or not. So both lots of .rst files get processed
> for both the HTML manual set and the manpages, even though
> they don't need to be[*]. This is a long-standing design
> deficiency in Sphinx. The only thing I could think of was
> splitting the manpages and html docs entirely into separate
> subdirectories, and having meson symlink the files which are
> actually shared between them. But that seems like quite a lot
> of extra machinery.

OK I've scrubbed the back links and sent v2 (which also reduces the
buildtime of cross-win64-system which kept tripping).

>
> [*] This shows up for instance in the HTML docs getting a
> not-linked-to-from-anywhere HTML version of the qemu(1) manpage:
> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/qemu-manpage.html
>
> -- PMM


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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro