| From: | Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> |
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| To: | "Nazir Bilal Yavuz" <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "L(dot) pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: meson html:alias vs. html:custom |
| Date: | 2026-04-16 06:26:06 |
| Message-ID: | d80f78a6-29ef-4094-8c3a-f63fd8189cc8@app.fastmail.com |
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On 2026-04-14, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 11:08, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> If I remove the alias_target, then my original command works. What is
>> the purpose of this alias?
>
> I think the main purpose was using these targets with the ninja
> command like: 'ninja ${target}'. ninja command doesn't work when the
> alias_target() is removed.
I think this is kinda silly. I would rather rename the meson target (to, say, do_html) and make the alias reference that, so that both "meson compile html" and "ninja html" would use the alias.
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Álvaro Herrera
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