Re: meson html:alias vs. html:custom

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 at 09:26, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> wrote:
>
> On 2026-04-14, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 11:08, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.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.

I agree with you. Here is a patch for fixing this problem with your
suggestion. I added the '-custom' suffix instead of the 'do_' prefix,
I think this makes it more concrete.


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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft