Re: meson html:alias vs. html:custom

On 2026-04-14, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 11:08, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> 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. 

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Álvaro Herrera