From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Change draft gmake control
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:28:03 +0100
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org,
	PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
References: <200701271514.l0RFEXK19056@momjian.us>
In-Reply-To: <200701271514.l0RFEXK19056@momjian.us>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200701271728.04355.peter_e@gmx.net>

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/