Re: Support building in a different directory on Solaris - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

> I routinely build tools in a directory other than the source
> directory.  This works in 7.1 on Linux and probably many other
> systems, but it doesn't work on Solaris.  There are two problems.  The
> first is the test built in to /bin/sh does not support -ef, although
> /usr/bin/test does support it.  The second is that /bin/find requires
> an explicit -print when -o is used.
>
> Here are a couple of patches to fix these problems.  I've tested these
> patches on Linux as well.  They should work on all systems.
>
> I did not include a patch to rebuild configure itself.  You must run
> autoconf after applying these patches.
>
> Ian
>
> Index: configure.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.132
> diff -u -r1.132 configure.in
> --- configure.in    2001/08/01 23:52:50    1.132
> +++ configure.in    2001/08/10 20:37:16
> @@ -1178,6 +1178,10 @@
>  # check whether 'test -ef' works
>  if (test "$srcdir" -ef "$srcdir") >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>    test_ef_works=yes
> +  ef_test=test
> +elif (/usr/bin/test "$srcdir" -ef "$srcdir") >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> +  test_ef_works=yes
> +  ef_test=/usr/bin/test
>  else
>    test_ef_works=no
>  fi
> @@ -1187,7 +1191,7 @@
>
>  if test "$test_ef_works" = yes ; then
>  # prepare build tree if outside source tree
> -  if test "$srcdir" -ef . ; then : ; else
> +  if $ef_test "$srcdir" -ef . ; then : ; else
>      abs_top_srcdir=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
>      echo $ac_n "preparing build tree... $ac_c" 1>&6
>      /bin/sh "$srcdir/config/prep_buildtree" "$abs_top_srcdir" "." \
> Index: config/prep_buildtree
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/config/prep_buildtree,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -r1.3 prep_buildtree
> --- config/prep_buildtree    2001/03/03 15:53:41    1.3
> +++ config/prep_buildtree    2001/08/10 20:38:38
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
>      fi
>  done
>
> -for item in `find "$sourcetree" -name Makefile -o -name GNUmakefile`; do
> +for item in `find "$sourcetree" -name Makefile -print -o -name GNUmakefile -print`; do
>      subdir=`expr "$item" : "$sourcetree\(.*\)"`
>      if test ! -f "${item}.in"; then
>          ln -fs "$item" "$buildtree/$subdir" || exit 1
>
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