Subject: Re: [PATCH] meson: fix perl dependencies for Documentation

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:26:59 +0100

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 06:38:50AM +0000, Sam James wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/technical/meson.build b/Documentation/technical/meson.build
> index 21dfb8b5c9..8c93da3566 100644
> --- a/Documentation/technical/meson.build
> +++ b/Documentation/technical/meson.build
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ api_index = custom_target(
>      '@OUTPUT@',
>    ],
>    env: script_environment,
> +  depends: documentation_deps,
>    input: api_docs,
>    output: 'api-index.txt',
>  )

Wait, this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. "api-index.sh" does not
care about "asciidoc.conf" at all, so why is this dependency needed?

> @@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ foreach article : api_docs + articles
>      command: asciidoc_html_options,
>      input: article,
>      output: fs.stem(article) + '.html',
> +    depends: documentation_deps,
>      install: true,
>      install_dir: get_option('datadir') / 'doc/git-doc/technical',
>    )

This one looks as expected, though.

Thanks!

Patrick