I wrote:
> Vladimir Kokovic <kokovic.vladimir@gmail.com> writes:
>> make[3]: Circular postgres.xml <- postgres.sgml dependency dropped.
> [ followed by havoc as make passes the wrong $< file to osx ]
> I can reproduce this when doing "make all" in doc/src/sgml in a
> VPATH build, but not when doing it in the regular source tree.
> I'm not sure if this is a make bug or something weird in our
> make rules. Any ideas?
I'm currently of the opinion that this is a gmake bug. (For the record,
I'm seeing it with make 3.81 in Fedora 11.) I found a pretty simple
workaround, though, which I have now committed.
regards, tom lane