Re: Is there an undocumented Syntax Check in Meson? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2024-05-09 20:12:38 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Attached is a patch which adds a check-docs target for meson, which
> takes 0.3s on my laptop.

Nice.


> +checkdocs = custom_target('check-docs',
> +  input: 'postgres.sgml',
> +  output: 'check-docs',
> +  depfile: 'postgres-full.xml.d',
> +  command: [xmllint,  '--nonet', '--valid', '--noout',
> +            '--path', '@OUTDIR@', '@INPUT@'],
> +  depends: doc_generated,
> +  build_by_default: false,
> +)
> +alias_target('check-docs', checkdocs)

Isn't the custom target redundant with postgres_full_xml? I.e. you could just
have the alias_target depend on postgres_full_xml?

Greetings,

Andres Freund