Hi,
On 2023-12-01 09:04:19 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2023-11-29 We 07:20, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > On 2023-11-28 Tu 21:28, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > On 2023-11-23 08:32:21 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > > On 2023-11-20 Mo 20:53, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > > meson: docs: Add {html,man} targets, rename install-doc-*
> > > > >
> > > > > We have toplevel html, man targets in the autoconf build as
> > > > > well. It'd be odd
> > > > > to have an 'html' target but have the install target be
> > > > > 'install-doc-html',
> > > > > thus rename the install targets to match.
> > > >
> > > > This commit of one of its nearby friends appears to have broken
> > > > crake's docs
> > > > build:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: Can't invoke target `html`: ambiguous name.Add target
> > > > type and/or path:
> > > > - ./doc/src/sgml/html:custom
> > > > - ./doc/src/sgml/html:alias
> > > >
> > > > See<https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=crake&dt=2023-11-23%2012%3A52%3A04>
> > > >
> > > Ah, I realize now that this is from meson compile html, not 'ninja
> > > html'. That
> > > explains why I couldn't reproduce this initially and why CI didn't
> > > complain.
> > > 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.
>
>
> and doing this has broken the docs build for release 16.
If I can get somebody to comment on
https://postgr.es/m/20231129183619.3hrnwaexbrpygbxg%40awork3.anarazel.de
we can remove the need for the :$buildtype suffix.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
