Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 10/4/16 11:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Apparently, 'make world' does not build worker_spi. I thought 'make
>>> world' was supposed to build everything?
>> You'd have thunk, yeah. It looks like the issue is that src/Makefile
>> is selective about recursing into certain subdirectories of test/,
>> but mostly not test/ itself. src/test/Makefile naively believes it's
>> in charge, though. Probably that logic ought to get shoved down one
>> level, and then adjusted so that src/test/modules gets built by "all".
>> Or else teach top-level "make world" to do "make all" in src/test/,
>> but that seems like it's just doubling down on confusing interconnections.
> We generally don't build test code during make world.
> The reason src/Makefile does that is probably because pg_regress is part
> of the installation.
> So this looks more or less correct to me.
Even if you think the behavior is correct (I'm not convinced), the
implementation is certainly confusing. I don't like the way that
src/test/Makefile gets bypassed for decisions about which of its
subdirectories get built for what. Any normal person would expect
that src/test/Makefile is what determines that.
regards, tom lane
