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Peter Maydell b93f4fbdc4 docs: Build and install all the docs in a single manual
When we first converted our documentation to Sphinx, we split it into
multiple manuals (system, interop, tools, etc), which are all built
separately.  The primary driver for this was wanting to be able to
avoid shipping the 'devel' manual to end-users.  However, this is
working against the grain of the way Sphinx wants to be used and
causes some annoyances:
 * Cross-references between documents become much harder or
   possibly impossible
 * There is no single index to the whole documentation
 * Within one manual there's no links or table-of-contents info
   that lets you easily navigate to the others
 * The devel manual doesn't get published on the QEMU website
   (it would be nice to able to refer to it there)

Merely hiding our developer documentation from end users seems like
it's not enough benefit for these costs.  Combine all the
documentation into a single manual (the same way that the readthedocs
site builds it) and install the whole thing.  The previous manual
divisions remain as the new top level sections in the manual.

 * The per-manual conf.py files are no longer needed
 * The man_pages[] specifications previously in each per-manual
   conf.py move to the top level conf.py
 * docs/meson.build logic is simplified as we now only need to run
   Sphinx once for the HTML and then once for the manpages5B
 * The old index.html.in that produced the top-level page with
   links to each manual is no longer needed

Unfortunately this means that we now have to build the HTML
documentation into docs/manual in the build tree rather than directly
into docs/; otherwise it is too awkward to ensure we install only the
built manual and not also the dependency info, stamp file, etc.  The
manual still ends up in the same place in the final installed
directory, but anybody who was consulting documentation from within
the build tree will have to adjust where they're looking.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210115154449.4801-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2021-01-19 15:45:14 +00:00
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atomics.rst qemu/atomic.h: rename atomic_ to qatomic_ 2020-09-23 16:07:44 +01:00
bitops.rst docs: Create bitops.rst as example of kernel-docs 2019-12-17 19:36:57 +01:00
blkdebug.txt docs/: fix some comment spelling errors 2020-09-17 20:37:13 +02:00
blkverify.txt meson: link emulators without Makefile.target 2020-08-21 06:30:40 -04:00
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build-system.rst docs: expand sourceset documentation 2020-11-03 09:42:52 -05:00
clocks.rst clock: Define and use new clock_display_freq() 2021-01-04 23:24:44 +01:00
control-flow-integrity.rst docs: Add CFI Documentation 2021-01-02 21:03:36 +01:00
decodetree.rst docs/devel: Document decodetree no-overlap groups 2020-08-04 16:33:47 +01:00
fuzzing.rst docs/fuzz: update fuzzing documentation post-meson 2020-11-10 08:51:29 +01:00
index.rst docs: Add CFI Documentation 2021-01-02 21:03:36 +01:00
kconfig.rst meson: cleanup Kconfig.host handling 2021-01-02 21:03:36 +01:00
loads-stores.rst docs/devel/loads-stores: Add regexp for DMA functions 2020-12-10 12:15:01 -05:00
lockcnt.txt qemu/atomic.h: rename atomic_ to qatomic_ 2020-09-23 16:07:44 +01:00
memory.rst docs: add memory API reference 2019-12-17 19:36:58 +01:00
migration.rst docs/devel/migration: Improve debugging section a bit 2020-12-18 10:08:24 +00:00
multi-thread-tcg.rst docs: repair broken references 2020-10-10 11:37:46 +02:00
multiple-iothreads.txt block: Remove bdrv_set_aio_context() 2019-06-04 16:55:58 +02:00
qapi-code-gen.txt docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Fix up examples 2020-11-09 09:07:59 +01:00
qom.rst docs/devel/qom: Avoid long lines 2020-10-06 11:09:35 -04:00
qtest.rst docs/devel: update instruction on how to add new unit tests 2020-10-12 11:50:23 -04:00
rcu.txt Docs/RCU: Correct sample code of qatomic_rcu_set 2021-01-12 12:38:03 +01:00
replay.txt replay: document development rules 2019-08-20 17:26:21 +02:00
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tcg.rst docs: Be consistent about capitalization of 'Arm' 2020-03-12 11:20:20 +00:00
testing.rst docs/devel/testing.rst: Update outdated Avocado URLs 2020-10-26 18:20:51 +01:00
tracing.txt tracetool: add output filename command-line argument 2021-01-04 14:24:58 +00:00
virtio-migration.txt docs: create config/, devel/ and spin/ subdirectories 2017-06-07 18:22:03 +02:00
writing-qmp-commands.txt qapi: Use QAPI_LIST_PREPEND() where possible 2020-12-19 10:20:14 +01:00