Re: postgresql HEAD build failure - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: postgresql HEAD build failure
Date
Msg-id 20070910014318.GA12395@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: postgresql HEAD build failure  (John Summerfield <postgres@herakles.homelinux.org>)
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John Summerfield wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> Hmm, try deleting the build tree and start again.  Sometimes, what
>> happens to me is that somebody adds a new directory, and my build tree
>> does not contain it.  It's easy to fix: when I had a slower computer
>> what I did was create the offending directory and symlink the makefile.
>> Nowadays I just wipe the whole thing and let the build directory be
>> constructed again by configure.  That gets things in sync.
>
> that, I think, subverts the purpose of cvs and other SCMTs, but...

No, it doesn't.  Note that I suggested only deleting the *build* dir,
not the source dir.  I use VPATH builds -- I never delete my source
dirs.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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