Re: [PATCHES] SGML index build fix

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 23:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > The attached patch warns users when they create documentation output
> > that has no index, and suggests re-running 'gmake'.
>
> This is just useless noise.  If it could tell the difference between an
> up-to-date index and a not-up-to-date one, there might be some value
> to it ... but as-is I think it's just getting in the user's face.
> Everyone using these tools knows about the two-pass behavior.

No, not everyone knows. In fact I would argue that most do not know. It
isn't intuitive to the process. You *expect* that an index will be made.

Joshua D. Drake

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