the `doc_module` variable has been removed. It was created because
its used in the autotools build file but actually `nm_name` variable
can be used easily.
Different objects used in the documentation target have been grouped
together.
The content file `version.xml`, and different build files are now
added properly.
Functions derived from generators as `configure_file`,
`custom_target` and `i18n.merge_file` can use placeholders like
`@BASENAME@` that removes the extension from the input filename
string.
The output string has been replaced by this placeholder that
allows in some cases the use of less variables.
What's actually needed here is an explaination of how the license
applies along with the explanation where to find the full text.
Also, the libnm documentation was lacking the licensing information
altogether. Fix fixes it too.
With glib < 2.51.3, gdbus-codegen does not understand "--output-directory" [1].
Hence, the generated files are like
"build/dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.WifiP2P.xml"
instead of
"build/introspection/dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.WifiP2P.xml"
But gnome.gdbus_codegen() returns a path as if it would be inside
"build/introspection". Hack around that, by patching the correct path
otherwise. This is still ugly, because repeated "ninja -C build" calls
will always try to rebuild this target (because the wrong file name
is considered).
See also [2].
[1] ee09bb704f
[2] 2e93ed58c3/mesonbuild/modules/gnome.py (L1170)
(cherry picked from commit ad9e5995e1)
We need to copy all introspection files to the same directory when
building the documentation.
Note that we only require Meson 0.44, but for the documentation at
least 0.46 is needed because of a new functionality of
gnome.gdbus_codegen(). In this way we can still build on Travis CI
(without documentation).
The strings holding the names used for libraries have also been
moved to different variables. This way they would be less error
as these variables can be reused easily and any typing error
would be quickly detected.
gtkdoc uses some custom generated targets as content files. However,
there are still two problem. The first is that gtkdoc does not
support targets which are not strings. This is being fixed in the
following issue:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/2806
The second issue is that the gtkdoc function produces a target which
is triggered at install time. This makes the dependencies generation
to not be triggered.
This patch uses a workaround for that second issue.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2017-December/msg00079.html
