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To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org,
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Subject: Re: [pgsql-patches] Change draft gmake control 
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
	message dated "Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:14:33 -0500"
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:38:03 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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