Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> I think this misunderstanding is again due to the confusion between the 'all'
> target in doc/src/sgml and the default target, just like earlier in the thread
> / why I ended up with the prior set of targets under 'docs'.

>   # Make "html" the default target, since that is what most people tend
>   # to want to use.
>   html:
>   ...
>   all: html man

> Given the repeated confusion from that, among fairly senior hackers, perhaps
> we ought to at least put those lines next to each other? It's certainly not
> obvious as-is.

I think there are ordering constraints between these and the
Makefile.global inclusion.  But we could add a comment beside the "all:"
line pointing out that that's not the default target.

> Perhaps we should have doc-html, doc-man, doc-all or such?

No objection here.

If we intend to someday build tarballs with meson, there'd need to be
a target that builds html+man, but that could perhaps be named
"distprep".

                        regards, tom lane


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