Re: Something fishy about the current Makefiles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Something fishy about the current Makefiles
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Msg-id 1294860592-sup-8432@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Something fishy about the current Makefiles  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue ene 06 13:57:11 -0300 2011:
> Whilst fooling around with GIN, I have repeatedly observed that doing
> "make" in src/backend/access/gin, followed by "make install-bin" in
> src/backend, fails to rebuild the postgres executable --- it just
> installs the existing one.  A second execution of "make install-bin"
> does notice that postgres is out of date and rebuilds it.  This
> procedure for rebuilding after changing one or two .c files has always
> worked for me before.  I can't avoid the suspicion that the recent
> changes to make things more parallel-friendly broke something.

FWIW this explains why I was having such a hard time testing the FOR KEY
LOCK patch.  Please commit whatever fix you have.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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