Re: Rearrangement of the HTML docs build rules

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rearrangement of the HTML docs build rules
Date: 2009-07-13 20:22:20
Message-ID: 200907132022.n6DKMKA16106@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I think I have finally figured out a way to do this correctly now.
>
> Yay. The existing method completely sucks --- I find that it *never*
> does one run on a rebuild, but at least two and sometimes three.
> I don't know whether it's feasible to implement "rebuild only if the
> index changed" in make, but we definitely haven't got that now, so
> eliminating the attempt is no hardship.

Peter is spot-on when he says having a file name mean different things
at different stages of the build process is a mess.

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