Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"
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Msg-id 17540.1368496840@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"  (Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>)
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Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> writes:
> While testing out PostgreSQL 9.3beta1, I stumbled upon a problem
> installing some extensions (pgTAP and semver among others):
> ...
> I traced the problem down to commit
> 9db7ccae2000524b72a4052352cbb5407fb53b02 "Use system install program
> when available and usable". It turns out that 'install' from coreutils
> 8.21 complains when it's told to install the same source file twice.

TBH, I thought that was a dangerous idea from the get-go.  My vote for
fixing this would be to revert that change, not try to hack all the
makefiles to work around it.
        regards, tom lane



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