Now that the reference documentation uses gi-docgen, it's more
troublesome to generate in less standard build scenarios like
cross-compiling.
In distributions like Debian, reference documentation is generally
packaged separately (in libglib2.0-doc in Debian's case), but man pages
are generally packaged alongside the executables themselves (in the
libglib2.0-bin and libglib2.0-dev-bin packages, in Debian's case). We
can exclude the reference documentation when cross-compiling, but ideally
we would like the man pages to still be built, so that a cross-compiled
libglib2.0-bin or libglib2.0-dev-bin package has the same content as a
native build.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
They are now installed to (e.g.)
`${prefix}/share/doc/glib-2.0/{glib,gmodule,gobject,gio}/index.html`.
We might want to drop one level of nesting out of that, but for the
moment I thought I’d keep it in so we can disambiguate by installed
major version.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
So they are consistent with the way we’re building man pages in other
projects, and because some people are allergic to XML.
This changes the build-time dependencies from `xsltproc` to `rst2man`,
and also takes the opportunity to change the `-Dman` Meson option from a
boolean to a feature (so you should use `-Dman-pages={enabled,disabled}`
now, rather than `-Dman={true,false}`).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Because the documentation is no longer built using gtk-doc.
Keep the old option around, but deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Point people to the official PCRE documentation instead, which is going
to be more up to date. This saves us periodically having to copy in and
reformat the PCRE documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
We haven’t made any backwards-incompatible changes since GLib 2.2 in
2002. It’s probably not very useful to tell people about those any more.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
They were previously `xi:include`d into some of the GDBus documentation,
but since the GDBus documentation was ported to Markdown that’s no
longer possible, so the object manager example docs now serve no
purpose.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move them to a separate page as they don’t really have a ‘class’ struct
each to hang docs off.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page, with a massive great list of all the misc
utils. Not a great documentation page, but equivalent to what we had
before, and it can be improved in future.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate documentation file, since most of what’s covered
isn’t introspectable.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page so the difference between `g_rand_*()` and
`g_random_*()` can be explained.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page so more detail can be provided about all the
groups of API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page so an overview of the deprecated threading
API can be given.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
This is a variant of `g_test_trap_subprocess()` which allows the
environment for the child process to be specified. This is quite useful
when you want to test code which reads environment variables, as it’s
not safe to set those after the start of `main()`.
This will be useful within and outwith GLib for testing such code.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #1618
Move it to a separate page, since it doesn’t quite make sense to
incorporate into the `GDBusConnection` docs.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page, as there isn’t a `GIOScheduler` struct.
Ensure that all its functions/methods/types are correctly marked as
deprecated. Fix a few broken links about I/O priority which pointed to
it.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate content page as there is no `GDBusIntrospection`
type to hang the rest of the documentation off.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Adding it all to the docs for the `GDBusError` enum seemed a bit much,
so I moved it to its own content page.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
The GIR files are now built by GLib itself, so they will be in the build
directories of each sub-library, except for GLib-2.0 which is built
alongside GObject-2.0.
On CHERI-enabled systems we use uintptr_t as the underlying storage for
GType and therefore casting to gsize strips the upper bits from a pointer.
Fix this by casting via uintptr_t instead and introduce a new set of
macros to convert between GType and pointers.
It needs to be in a separate page because there isn’t actually a
`GFileAttribute` type.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Helps: #3037
It needs to be in a separate page because it’s all macros and they have
no type/class associated with them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Helps: #3037
Gate the API reference on the availability of the introspection data as
well, so we don't accidentally try and generate the documentation
without a description of our API.
g_strv_builder_take() allows to transfer ownership of the passed in
string.
This can be useful to avoid additional allocations when using functions
that transfer ownership to the caller like g_strdup_printf().
The testcase uses g_strv_builder_take and g_strv_builder_add to demo
that calls can be mixed.
This copies the test code inline into the Markdown, which means it could
diverge from the test code which is compiled and run as part of the
tests. That needs improving, but that can happen in a subsequent commit.
Helps: #3037
As we start moving documentation over from gtk-doc to gi-docgen, the
gtk-doc coverage is going to go down and things are going to start
breaking. That’s OK; we don’t need to test it any more.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #3037
The files here are copied from the docs-gtk-org
branch of gtk.
This adds gi-docgen to the CI Dockerfiles and ensures the new versions
(including the OS upgrades from the previous commit) are used during CI.
Helps: #3037
We can't easily use g_autofd with g_unix_open_pipe, because its
parameter is an array of two fds that both need closing. Add an inline
convenience wrapper providing the obvious semantics.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
I'm not aware of any platforms where this is a problem in practice, but
it's definitely nonportable and doesn't hurt to document it.
I wonder about CHERI....
These functions can be used to initalize pointer-type variables rather
than a gsize. This is required to support CHERI-enabled platforms where
gsize cannot be used to store pointers. Follow-up changes will migrate
the uses of g_once_init that store pointers to the new API
Helps: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2842
The `GTK_USE_PORTAL` environment variable has started to be misused by
users, which is causing deployment issues (such as portal services
themselves ending up being forced to use portals, which is never going
to work).
Try and sidestep users’ broken configurations by renaming the
environment variable, and also separating it from the old GTK
environment variable, since the GLib one affects a lot more processes.
This environment variable is meant to be used for
debugging and development, and never in production.
GTK already renamed their environment variable in
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4829, so keeping the
`GTK_USE_PORTAL` name in GLib doesn’t make sense anyway.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #3107
This reverts commit 252bbcd207.
After further discussion in !3511, we’ve decided that there are risks
associated with this change, and it’s not the best way of addressing the
original problem.
The original motivation for the change turned out to be that
`-mms-bitfields` was not handled by `windres`, which was receiving it
from `pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0` in some projects. However, if
`windres` is claiming to accept CFLAGS then it should accept (and
ignore) `-mms-bitfields`, since the `-m` family of options are defined
in `man gcc`, just like `-I`, `-D`, etc.
There is some question that there might still be third party projects
which are built with an old enough compiler that `-mms-bitfields` is not
the compiler default. For that reason, we should either still continue
to specify `-mms-bitfields` in the `.pc` file, or add a test to assert
that third party projects are always compiled with `-mms-bitfields` set.
But adding a new test for all third-party compilations is risky (if we
get it wrong, things will break; and it’s a test which may behave
differently on different platforms), so it seems safer to just keep
`-mms-bitfields` in `.pc` for now.
Once all compilers which we require specify `-mms-bitfields` by default,
we can finally drop this flag (without adding a test for third-party
compilations).
See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3511
This documents the practices that I’ve been trying to follow for the
last few years for managing GLib issues and merge requests, and why they
seem to work well enough.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
The introspection scanner cannot deal very well with function pointers
into a plain structure. In order to document the various function
pointers in GTypeValueTable we need to create typed callbacks, and
use them to replace the anonymous function pointers inside the
structure. This not only allows us to properly document the function
pointers, but it also allows us to annotate the arguments and return
value of those function pointers.
See also: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/merge_requests/400#note_1721707
