18405, "bradcray", "Incremental 'make docs' build can hide actual errors", "2021-09-12T03:03:35Z"
In its new incremental form, make docs
can hide actual errors because
it doesn't re-build relevant files. For example, say that one file, A.rst
refers to a label/anchor in a second file B.rst
. If someone is editing
B.rst
and edits that label/anchor out, only B.rst
is rebuilt and no
problems are found. But when A.rst
is eventually re-built, it will break
because it can no longer resolve the cross-file link.