From b85ab635e769e6b7ff563cc70c8cfa80bcfa0f3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: user202729 <25191436+user202729@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:21:35 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] Explain how to disable generating targets for docbuilding

---
 src/doc/en/installation/source.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/doc/en/installation/source.rst b/src/doc/en/installation/source.rst
index e049edd0bde..d785ed9abef 100644
--- a/src/doc/en/installation/source.rst
+++ b/src/doc/en/installation/source.rst
@@ -208,6 +208,15 @@ Remarks
   run in parallel based on the number of CPU available. This can be adjusted
   by passing ``--config-settings=compile-args=-jN`` to ``pip install``.
 
+  If you don't need to build the documentation, pass
+  ``--config-settings=setup-args=-Dbuild-docs=false`` to ``pip install``
+  to speed up the target generation step.
+
+  The parameter ``setup-args`` etc. are documented in
+  `<https://mesonbuild.com/meson-python/how-to-guides/config-settings.html>`_.
+  ``setup-args`` are passed to ``meson``, effect ``compile-args``
+  are passed to ``ninja``.
+
   ``--verbose`` can be passed to ``pip install``, then the meson commands
   internally used by pip will be printed out.