Re: [PATCH] docs: make sphinx-build be quiet by default

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 12:13, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:06:47PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Can we make meson pass '-q' only for non-verbose builds, so that
> > if you pass make 'V=1' you still get the verbose sphinx output ?
>
> The meson.build rules are turned into a ninja.build file at configure time.
> IOW, at the time that conversion happens the V=1 arg isn't present, so we
> can't conditionally pass '-q'.

I'd rather have "always verbose" than "never verbose" then, I think.

Also, this seems like a meson/ninja misfeature if we can't do
a perfectly sensible thing. We can do it for cc, why not sphinx?

thanks
-- PMM