The build server should now have the missing dependencies.
Original summary:
Currently LLDB uses epydoc to generate the Python API reference for the website.
epydoc however is unmaintained since more than a decade and no longer works with
Python 3. Also whatever setup we had once for generating the documentation on
the website server no longer seems to work, so the current website documentation
has been stale since more than a year.
This patch replaces epydoc with sphinx and its automodapi plugin that can
generate Python API references. LLVM already uses sphinx for the rest of the
documentation, so this way we are more consistent with the rest of LLVM. The
only new dependency is the automodapi plugin for sphinx.
This patch effectively does the following things:
* Remove the epydoc code.
* Make a new dummy Python API page in our website that just calls the Sphinx
command for generated the API documentation.
* Add a mock _lldb module that is only used when generating the Python API.
This way we don't have to build all of LLDB to generate the API reference.
Some notes:
* The long list of skips is necessary due to boilerplate functions that SWIG
is generating. Sadly automodapi is not really scriptable from what I can see,
so we have to blacklist this stuff manually.
* The .gitignore change because automodapi wants a subfolder of our
documentation directory to place generated documentation files there. The path
is also what is used on the website, so we can't really workaround this
(without copying the whole `docs` dir somewhere else when we build).
* We have to use environment variables to pass our build path to our sphinx
configuration. Sphinx doesn't support passing variables onto that script.
Reviewed By: JDevlieghere
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94489
Currently LLDB uses epydoc to generate the Python API reference for the website.
epydoc however is unmaintained since more than a decade and no longer works with
Python 3. Also whatever setup we had once for generating the documentation on
the website server no longer seems to work, so the current website documentation
has been stale since more than a year.
This patch replaces epydoc with sphinx and its automodapi plugin that can
generate Python API references. LLVM already uses sphinx for the rest of the
documentation, so this way we are more consistent with the rest of LLVM. The
only new dependency is the automodapi plugin for sphinx.
This patch effectively does the following things:
* Remove the epydoc code.
* Make a new dummy Python API page in our website that just calls the Sphinx
command for generated the API documentation.
* Add a mock _lldb module that is only used when generating the Python API.
This way we don't have to build all of LLDB to generate the API reference.
Some notes:
* The long list of skips is necessary due to boilerplate functions that SWIG
is generating. Sadly automodapi is not really scriptable from what I can see,
so we have to blacklist this stuff manually.
* The .gitignore change because automodapi wants a subfolder of our
documentation directory to place generated documentation files there. The path
is also what is used on the website, so we can't really workaround this
(without copying the whole `docs` dir somewhere else when we build).
* We have to use environment variables to pass our build path to our sphinx
configuration. Sphinx doesn't support passing variables onto that script.
Reviewed By: JDevlieghere
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94489
Separate the CMake logic for Lua and Python to clearly distinguish
between code specific to either scripting language and the code shared
by both.
What this patch does is:
- Move Python specific code into the bindings/python subdirectory.
- Move the Lua specific code into the bindings/lua subdirectory.
- Add the _python suffix to Python specific functions/targets.
- Fix a dependency issue that would check the binding instead of
whether the scripting language is enabled.
Note that this patch also changes where the bindings are generated,
which might affect downstream projects that check them in.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85708
All the code required to generate the language bindings for Python and
Lua lives under scripts, even though the majority of this code aren't
scripts at all, and surrounded by scripts that are totally unrelated.
I've reorganized these files and moved everything related to the
language bindings into a new top-level directory named bindings. This
makes the corresponding files self contained and much more discoverable.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72437
This patch replaces the existing out-of-date man page for lldb and
replaces it with an RST file from which sphinx generates the actual
troff file. This is similar to how man pages are generated for the rest
of the LLVM utilities.
The man page is generated by building the `docs-lldb-man` target.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70514
This leads to a configuration error because we're trying to get a
property that doesn't exist:
get_target_property() called with non-existent target "swig_wrapper"
This returns the look & feel of the Sphinx-generated LLDB website to
the original pre-Sphinx layout.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61913
llvm-svn: 360819
CMake specifies that the DEPENDS field of add_custom_target is for files
and output of add_custom_command. In order to add a target dependency,
add_dependencies should be used.
llvm-svn: 359490
As discussed on the mailing list, we should be able to generate the
Python reference without building all of LLDB. To make that possible I
create a dummy python package, which is then parsed by epydoc. The
latter will complain that it couldn't import lldb, but that doesn't
matter as far as generation of the docs is concerned.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61216
llvm-svn: 359465
The current LLDB website is written in HTML which is hard to maintain.
We have quite a bit of HTML code checked in which can make it hard to
differentiate between documentation written by us and documentation
generated by a tool.
In line with the other LLVM projects, I propose generating the
documentation with Sphix. I think text/rst files provide a lower barrier
for new or casual contributors to fix or update.
This patch adds a copy of the LLDB website and documentation in
reStructuredText. It also adds a new ninja target `docs-lldb-html` when
-DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX:BOOL is enabled.
This is the first step in having the website and documentation being
generated from the repository, rather than having the output checked-in
under the www folder. During the hopefully short transition period,
please also update the reStructuredText files when modifying the
website.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55376
llvm-svn: 352644
variable (now provided both by the normal parent LLVM CMake files and by
the LLVMConfig.cmake file used by the standalone build).
This allows LLDB to build into and install into correctly suffixed
libdirs. This is especially significant for LLDB because the python
extension building done by CMake directly uses multilib suffixes when
the host OS does, and the host OS will not always look back and forth
between them. As a consequence, before LLVM, Clang, and LLDB (and every
other subproject) had support for using LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX, you couldn't
build or install LLDB on a multilib system with its python extensions
enabled. With this patch (on top of all the others I have submitted
throughout the project), I'm finally able to build and install LLDB on
my system with Python support enabled. I'm also able to actually run the
LLDB test suite, etc. Now, a *huge* number of the tests still fail on my
Linux system, but hey, actually running them and them testing the
debugger is a huge step forward. =D
llvm-svn: 224930
- [ninja|make] lldb-cpp-doc builds the C++ API reference docs
- [ninja|make] lldb-python-doc builds the python API reference docs
- updated build page on website to include instructions to build docs
Tested on Linux/Mac OS X
llvm-svn: 182752
Raphael Isemann