Re: [RFC PATCH] gitlab: default to not building the documentation

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 22/03/2021 15.41, Alex Bennée wrote:
> In d0f26e68a0 ("gitlab: force enable docs build in Fedora, Ubuntu,
> Debian") we made sure we can build the documents on more than one
> system. However we don't want to build documents all the time as it's
> a waste of cycles (and energy). So lets reduce the total amount of
> documentation we build while still keeping some coverage.
> 
> Fixes: a8a3abe0b3 ("gitlab: move docs and tools build across from Travis")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.yml | 12 ++++++------
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> index 9ffbaa7ffb..7714c7cac8 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ include:
>       - cd build
>       - if test -n "$TARGETS";
>         then
> -        ../configure --enable-werror $CONFIGURE_ARGS --target-list="$TARGETS" ;
> +        ../configure --enable-werror --disable-docs $CONFIGURE_ARGS --target-list="$TARGETS" ;
>         else
> -        ../configure --enable-werror $CONFIGURE_ARGS ;
> +        ../configure --enable-werror --disable-docs $CONFIGURE_ARGS ;
>         fi || { cat config.log meson-logs/meson-log.txt && exit 1; }
>       - if test -n "$LD_JOBS";
>         then
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ build-system-ubuntu:
>       job: amd64-ubuntu2004-container
>     variables:
>       IMAGE: ubuntu2004
> -    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-fdt=system --enable-slirp=system
> +    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-docs --enable-fdt=system --enable-slirp=system

I think it might be better to add it to the Fedora job - it will likely have 
a newer version of Sphinx and gets updated more often.

  Thomas