Hi,
On 2023-11-29 10:05:26 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2023-11-29 We 08:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > > On 2023-11-28 Tu 21:28, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > I don't really understand why meson compile complains in this case. I assume
> > > > you don't want to disambiguate as suggested, by building html:alias instead?
> > > I've done that as a temporary fix to get crake out of the hole, but it's
> > > pretty ugly, and I don't want to do it in a release if at all possible.
> > Our documentation says specifically that "ninja html" will build the
> > HTML format. I would expect that to work by analogy with the "make"
> > target; having to spell it differently seems like clearly a bug.
> >
> >
>
>
> "ninja html" does in fact work. What's not working is "meson compile html".
> And it looks like the reason I used that in the buildfarm code is that ninja
> doesn't know about other targets like "postgres-US.pdf".
It does:
ninja help|grep pdf
doc/src/sgml/postgres-A4.pdf Build documentation in PDF format, with A4 pages
doc/src/sgml/postgres-US.pdf Build documentation in PDF format, with US letter pages
"ninja doc/src/sgml/postgres-US.pdf" works and has worked since day one.
FWIW, you can continue to use meson compile, you just need to disambiguate the
target name:
meson compile html:alias
Which isn't particularly pretty, but does work.
Greetings,
Andres Freund