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authorJoerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>2020-10-23 13:06:51 +0200
committerJoerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>2020-10-23 21:11:40 +0200
commit4bf8f70bfe74b33627cd93e1e36c0ee28a69a034 (patch)
treea76df06ebd3d1f2fbace6510319c7bc908b5f218 /cmake/QtDocsHelpers.cmake
parent86064e1298b021e2d442adbdf46550ed11b22d18 (diff)
CMake: Let doc targets depend on doc tools in top-level build
For top-level builds it's desirable to have "ninja generate_docs" build all tools needed to generate the documentation. This is problematic since the doc-generating targets are created before the doc tool targets. Thus, we must defer the dependency connection if the doc tool target is not yet available. This patch adds the functions qt_internal_defer_dependency and qt_internal_add_deferred_dependencies. Change-Id: Ica940b80882e67cb0e0943e95541f7f4d1885948 Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'cmake/QtDocsHelpers.cmake')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cmake/QtDocsHelpers.cmake b/cmake/QtDocsHelpers.cmake
index 2a90c61f10..0b455d5ed5 100644
--- a/cmake/QtDocsHelpers.cmake
+++ b/cmake/QtDocsHelpers.cmake
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+# This function adds a dependency between a doc-generating target like 'generate_docs_Gui'
+# and the necessary tool target like 'qdoc'.
+#
+# If the target is not yet existing, save the dependency connection in a global property.
+# The dependency is then added near the end of the top-level build after all subdirectories have
+# been handled.
+function(qt_internal_add_doc_tool_dependency doc_target tool_name)
+ qt_get_tool_target_name(tool_target ${tool_name})
+ if(TARGET ${tool_target})
+ add_dependencies(${doc_target} ${tool_target})
+ else()
+ qt_internal_defer_dependency(${doc_target} ${tool_target})
+ endif()
+endfunction()
+
function(qt_internal_add_docs)
if(${ARGC} EQUAL 1)
# Function called from old generated CMakeLists.txt that was missing the target parameter
@@ -193,4 +208,10 @@ function(qt_internal_add_docs)
add_dependencies(${qt_docs_install_html_target_name} install_html_docs_${target})
add_dependencies(${qt_docs_install_qch_target_name} install_qch_docs_${target})
add_dependencies(${qt_docs_install_target_name} install_docs_${target})
+
+ # Make sure that the necessary tools are built when running,
+ # for example 'cmake --build . --target generate_docs'.
+ qt_internal_add_doc_tool_dependency(qattributionsscanner_${target} qtattributionsscanner)
+ qt_internal_add_doc_tool_dependency(prepare_docs_${target} qdoc)
+ qt_internal_add_doc_tool_dependency(qch_docs_${target} qhelpgenerator)
endfunction()