From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-patches] Change draft gmake control
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:38:03 -0500
Message-ID: <6401.1169915883@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701271514.l0RFEXK19056@momjian.us>
References: <200701271514.l0RFEXK19056@momjian.us>
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 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.
No, the point is that "gmake draft" ought to work. I'm not sure where
you came up with the idea that "gmake draft html" was a sane command,
but it certainly wasn't what was proposed initially.
regards, tom lane
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