Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> Tom Lane wrote:
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>>> Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled.
>>> Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow,
>>> but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.
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>> We currently don't have any way of providing for settings other than via
>> the configure script options. We could in theory make provision for
>> adding stuff to pg_config_manual.h, although it would be a bit more
>> difficult in the vpath (I guess for vpath we could just blow that file
>> away along with the files bison, flex etc. lob in the repo).
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> This particular issue could be implemented just by adding
> -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS to CFLAGS (or CPPFLAGS if you want to be anal
> about it). I suppose that no new buildfarm mechanism is required ---
> someone just needs to set up an animal configured that way, and
> scheduled to run only maybe once a week or something like that.
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Ah. Ok. That makes sense. How long does such a regression run usually take?
cheers
andrew
