build: Fix manpage generation at dist time

The AsciiDoc API only exposes the capabilities of asciidoc, but not
the related a2x tool. Fix generating the manpages by shelling out
to the command line tool instead.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4320

Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1859>

diff --git a/meson/generate-manpages.py b/meson/generate-manpages.py
index ce2ca282821a19dff0591d5f2029f1896116f8c8..e12df61b463a98552d3dab051658881fa175c1ec 100644 (file)
--- a/meson/generate-manpages.py
+++ b/meson/generate-manpages.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import os
 from pathlib import PurePath
-from asciidocapi import AsciiDocAPI
+import subprocess
 
 man_pages = [
     'man/gnome-shell.1',
@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ man_pages = [
 sourceroot = os.environ.get('MESON_SOURCE_ROOT')
 distroot = os.environ.get('MESON_DIST_ROOT')
 
-asciidoc = AsciiDocAPI()
-
 for man_page in man_pages:
     page_path = PurePath(man_page)
     src = PurePath(sourceroot, page_path.with_suffix('.txt'))
     dst = PurePath(distroot, page_path)
     stylesheet = src.with_name('stylesheet.xsl')
 
-    asciidoc.options('--xsl-file', os.fspath(stylesheet))
-    asciidoc.execute(os.fspath(src), outfile=os.fspath(dst))
+    subprocess.call(['a2x', '--xsl-file', os.fspath(stylesheet),
+      '--format', 'manpage', '--destination-dir', os.fspath(dst.parent),
+      os.fspath(src)])