Makefiles aren't really good at conditionals like that, but the patchbot 
should certainly do it. The Sage buildbot always does a doc-clean before 
building the docs.



On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:35:41 AM UTC+1, Jakob Kroeker wrote:
>
> Sometimes the build of the documentation fails with 
>
> Error building the documentation.
>
> Note: incremental documentation builds sometimes cause spurious
> error messages. To be certain that these are real errors, run
> "make doc-clean" first and try again.
>
> Now I'm questioning if it is a good idea to doc-clean and auto-rebuild 
> the documentation *once* by default in case of an error;
> at least by the patchbot. If the error persists, do not try that again. 
> For the final decision on this question it should be considered that too 
> much complexity or intelligence may cause more harm than good.
>
> Any opinions or other thoughts?
>
>
>
>
>

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