From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Change draft gmake control
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:28:03 +0100
Message-ID: <200701271728.04355.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701271514.l0RFEXK19056@momjian.us>
References: <200701271514.l0RFEXK19056@momjian.us>
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Nothing, but the point is that draft is a modifier and it isn't clear
>
> >from that syntax that draft is a modifier and not a target.
> >
> > Anyway, certainly you could write this to preserve the target:
> >
> > draft:
> > $(MAKE) html DRAFT=Y
>
> The problem is that the 'gmake' recursion is done, but then returns
> and runs the hhml again, so 'gmake draft html' calls "$(MAKE) html
> DRAFT=Y" and on return from that, the html is called again and
> rebuilds, so it isn't really draft.
Well, "gmake draft html" doesn't make any sense anyway, but "gmake
draft" by itself does and the new way of writing it is significantly
more cumbersome, so I request that this be fixed.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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