Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > > On 12/10/09 10:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > >>> Testing Alpha2 with the Exclusion Constraints patch on Mac recently > >>> forced me to edit the makefiles to remove the make docs statements. > >> > >> How so? The make process does not try to build the docs unless you > >> specifically tell it to. > > > It most certainly did with Alpha2. > > Hm, maybe the alpha2 tarball had docs in it already? And they weren't > up to date? You might be hitting the same thing I've complained of: > since "make distclean" no longer removes built docs, you can find > yourself running an update cycle when you didn't want to. Peter > rejected my opinion that we should go back to the old behavior of > "make distclean", but I'm still not happy about it. > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01336.php
If the patch added new docs, then a doc build would be invoked by make. A "make -C doc maintainer-clean" would remove the trigger files and thus the docs would not be built after applying the patch. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
