Let's stop with the retail rebuilds of src/port/ files already - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Let's stop with the retail rebuilds of src/port/ files already
Date
Msg-id 13022.1538003440@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Responses Re: Let's stop with the retail rebuilds of src/port/ files already  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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I'm getting tired of having to make fixes like ce4887bd0.  I think
we should rearrange things so that src/port/ and src/common/ compile
all their files a third time using shared-library-friendly switches,
put them into new .a files, and have libpq and the ecpg libraries
just include those libraries instead of what they're doing now.

This would result in compiling some of the port+common files uselessly,
since they'd never actually get pulled in by any shared library.
But I think we're approaching the point where we might have a net savings
of build time anyway, due to not having to compile the same files multiple
times in different subdirectories.  And it'd sure be a savings of
developer brain-cells and sanity.

Maybe use the extension "_shlib" (vs "_srv") for these .o and .a files.

Thoughts?

            regards, tom lane


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