Re: Rearrangement of the HTML docs build rules

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I think I have finally figured out a way to do this correctly now.
>
> Yay. The existing method completely sucks --- I find that it *never*
> does one run on a rebuild, but at least two and sometimes three.
> I don't know whether it's feasible to implement "rebuild only if the
> index changed" in make, but we definitely haven't got that now, so
> eliminating the attempt is no hardship.

BTW I discovered a couple of years ago that if you set the DSSSL stuff
to build only the index and not output the HTML, the first pass is
*very* fast. It required patching some lispy file however, so I'm not
sure if we can usefully take advantage of that. I can find the details
if you're interested.

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