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From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:46:07 +0300
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Subject: Re: meson html:alias vs. html:custom
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Hi,

On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 at 09:26, =C3=81lvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> wr=
ote:
>
> On 2026-04-14, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 11:08, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> w=
rote:
> >>
> >> If I remove the alias_target, then my original command works.  What is
> >> the purpose of this alias?
> >
> > I think the main purpose was using these targets with the ninja
> > command like: 'ninja ${target}'. ninja command doesn't work when the
> > alias_target() is removed.
>
> I think this is kinda silly. I would rather rename the meson target (to, =
say, do_html) and make the alias reference that, so that both "meson compil=
e html" and "ninja html" would use the alias.

I agree with you. Here is a patch for fixing this problem with your
suggestion. I added the '-custom' suffix instead of the 'do_' prefix,
I think this makes it more concrete.


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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft

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