Re: pgsql/doc/src/sgml Makefile cvs.sgml datatype. ... - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql/doc/src/sgml Makefile cvs.sgml datatype. ...
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Msg-id 200112111040.fBBAe1211847@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql/doc/src/sgml Makefile cvs.sgml datatype. ...  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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I understgand the accidental commit problem.  Happens to me to at times.

Thanks.  That fixed my build.  My SGML files or on the web again.

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> > Can I ask why a full path of /usr/bin/ was added to collateindex.pl with
> > no discussion and no mention in the cvs logs?  This broke my automatic
> > build because my binary is in the sgml binary directory.  Can it be put
> > back?
>
> Well, because it was a mistake on my part ;)
>
> By default, *my* docs build does not work without an altered Makefile,
> since the binaries are not found (being located in /usr/bin, not in some
> hardcoded directory elsewhere).
>
> That would seem to be an undesirable feature (hardcoding paths to
> binaries, wherever they are located). However, I did not intend to
> commit that Makefile; it snuck through with the commit of the 50 other
> files in that same docs "commitball". Will back out the change (or you
> can if you prefer). Of course, no hardcoded paths would be even
> better...
>
>                     - Thomas
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