John Summerfield <postgres@herakles.homelinux.org> writes:
> That (combined with another cvs update) cleared the problem. Should the
> distclean be necessary?
Yes, unless you configured with --enable-depend during your previous
build (and I wouldn't necessarily swear that --enable-depend catches
every possible dependency).
When in doubt --- especially if your build fails but the buildfarm seems
happy --- do a distclean & rebuild before investing any intellectual
effort in figuring out the problem.
My own practice, developed after a couple of unpleasant episodes of this
sort, is to make distclean before any cvs update. Machine cycles are
cheap, my time isn't. I've found that I can generally overlap the
rebuild time with useful work, or at least mail-reading ...
regards, tom lane
