Link scaling plot to performance page, harden lychee CI config

- Make weak scaling card clickable (links to expectedPerformance.html)
- Fix lychee exclude_path: glob to regex syntax for CLI compatibility
- Add URL exclude for sitemap referenced in robots.txt
- Move publish step before lychee so deploys are not blocked by link errors
- Set lychee fail: true so broken links fail CI
- Add VERBATIM to inject-dates CMake custom command

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: sbryngelson

.github/workflows/docs.yml

@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ jobs:
         echo "url-count = ${{ steps.sitemap.outputs.url-count }}"
         echo "excluded-count = ${{ steps.sitemap.outputs.excluded-count }}"
 
-    - name: Linkcheck - Lychee
-      uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
-      with:
-        args: -c .lychee.toml build/install/docs/mfc/
-        fail: false
-
     - name: Publish Documentation
       if:   github.repository == 'MFlowCode/MFC' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' &&  (github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' )
       run:  |
@@ -83,5 +77,11 @@ jobs:
         git -C ../www commit -m "Docs @ ${GITHUB_SHA::7}" || true
         git -C ../www push
 
+    - name: Linkcheck - Lychee
+      uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
+      with:
+        args: -c .lychee.toml build/install/docs/mfc/
+        fail: true
+
 # DOC_PUSH_URL should be of the format:
 # --> https://<username>:<token>@github.com/<username>/<repository>

.lychee.toml

@@ -16,5 +16,8 @@ accept = ["200", "429"]
 
 verbose = "error"
 
-# Exclude sitemap from link checking (it contains pre-publish production URLs)
-exclude_path = ["**/sitemap.xml"]
+# Exclude sitemap file from scanning (it contains pre-publish production URLs)
+exclude_path = ["sitemap\\.xml"]
+
+# Exclude sitemap URL referenced in robots.txt (only exists after deployment)
+exclude = ["https://mflowcode\\.github\\.io/sitemap\\.xml"]

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ if (MFC_DOCUMENTATION)
                 "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"
         COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E touch "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/inject-dates.stamp"
         COMMENT "Injecting page dates into documentation"
+        VERBATIM
     )
     add_custom_target(inject_page_dates DEPENDS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/inject-dates.stamp")
     add_dependencies(documentation_doxygen inject_page_dates)

docs/index.html

@@ -112,12 +112,12 @@
             `).join("");
 
             document.getElementById("ft-scaling").innerHTML = scalings.map(s => `
-                <div class="flex md:w-2/6 mx-auto flex-col text-white rounded bg-slate-900 rounded-b-lg">
+                <a href="documentation/expectedPerformance.html" class="flex md:w-2/6 mx-auto flex-col text-white rounded bg-slate-900 rounded-b-lg hover:ring-2 hover:ring-amber-400 transition-shadow no-underline">
                     <div class="flex-1 grid bg-white pb-2">
                         <img class="place-self-center" src="${s.image}" alt="${s.label}">
                     </div>
                     <div class="flex-1 p-2 font-semibold text-center">${s.label}</div>
-                </div>
+                </a>
             `).join("");
 
             fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/MFlowCode/MFC/releases/latest")