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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: L. pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: meson html:alias vs. html:custom
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:26:06 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <CAN55FZ0d3eVN10O7rk1M9LJj7T8dS=+tqZyNJeJSP+yggk-VmA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2026-04-14, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 11:08, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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 compile html" and "ninja html" would use the alias.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera

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