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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Kupershmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Building PDFs error: \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pd
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:36:12 -0500
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue ene 27 20:57:27 -0300 2011:
>> (Note: if you just do "make postgres-A4.pdf", make will unhelpfully
>> throw away the tex-pdf intermediate file upon error.  What I have done
>> when I needed to look is to explicitly "make postgres-A4.tex-pdf" and
>> then "make postgres-A4.pdf", which keeps make from discarding the
>> tex-pdf file when the second step fails.  I wonder though if we could
>> tweak the makefile to make this less inconvenient.)

> Maybe mark it .PRECIOUS?

Well, it is only an intermediate file, so not sure we want that.
I was wondering more about a behavior where the file would be thrown
away on successful completion but *not* if pdftex fails.  I think we
could have that if the sequence were folded into just one make rule
... is there a good reason for .tex-pdf to be a separate target?

			regards, tom lane

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