On tis, 2009-08-18 at 11:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sometime since Friday, somebody (probably Peter) "fixed" things so that
> "make install" at the top level of the tree insists on building the SGML
> documentation first. I regard this as utterly unacceptable; if I'm just
> trying to build a new test installation (which I often do multiple times
> per day), I do not wish to wait around for the SGML docs to be built.
> Please fix. Maybe installing the docs could be conditional on having
> done "make distprep", instead?
That's pretty much how it is supposed to work. I can't reproduce the
problem you are describing.