Re: dependencies for generated header files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: dependencies for generated header files
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Msg-id 603c8f070908111802t36b563eetd6d9dea12546099b@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: dependencies for generated header files  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Alvaro
Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>
>> *shrug*  You don't have to accept the patch, but I'm unclear as to how
>> make from a subdirectory will ever work reliably without something
>> like this.  The problem occurs when .c files have dependencies on
>> files that are generated by a Makefile in some other subdirectory.  So
>> it's not random stuff: it's the stuff where that particular thing
>> happens.
>
> But what use would have to build that particular .o file, and not the
> whole postgres binary?

I don't think that I can spell it out any more clearly than I did in
the paragraph immediately preceding the one you have quoted here.

...Robert


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