Re: make everything target

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-27T23:02:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>   
>> On ons, 2010-01-27 at 10:41 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>     
>>> I'd like to have an "everything" target that would build "all + html + 
>>> contrib".
>>>       
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>   
>> +10
>>     
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>   
>>> And maybe an "installcheck-everything" target that would run 
>>> installcheck for src, pl and contrib.
>>>       
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>   
>> +100
>>     
>
> These proposals sound reasonable to me too, but is "everything" an
> appropriate target name, or is there some other/better convention?
>   

I'm not invested in the name. Suggestions welcome.

> I assume we don't want to mess with the default behavior (I don't
> want to, anyway).
> 		
>   

Me either, although it's a bit of a pity history has stuck us with the 
default behaviour.

cheers

andrew