On 13.07.23 01:19, Andres Freund wrote:
>> One thing in particular that isn't clear right now is how "make world"
>> should behave if the documentation tools are not found. Maybe we should
>> make a build option, like "--with-docs", to mirror the meson behavior.
>
> Isn't that somewhat unrelated to distprep? I see that you removed missing,
> but I don't really understand why as part of this commit?
Ok, I put the docs stuff back the way it was and put "missing" back in.
>> -# If there are any files in the source directory that we also generate in the
>> -# build directory, they might get preferred over the newly generated files,
>> -# e.g. because of a #include "file", which always will search in the current
>> -# directory first.
>> -message('checking for file conflicts between source and build directory')
>
> You're thinking this can be removed because distclean is now reliable? There
> were some pretty annoying to debug issues early on, where people switched from
> an in-tree autoconf build to meson, with some files left over from the source
> build, causing problems at a *later* time (when the files should have changed,
> but the wrong ones were picked up). That's not really related distprep etc,
> so I'd change this separately, if we want to change it.
Ok, I kept it in.
>> diff --git a/src/tools/pginclude/cpluspluscheck b/src/tools/pginclude/cpluspluscheck
>> index 4e09c4686b..287395887c 100755
>> --- a/src/tools/pginclude/cpluspluscheck
>> +++ b/src/tools/pginclude/cpluspluscheck
>> @@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ do
>> test "$f" = src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.h && continue
>> test "$f" = src/test/isolation/specparse.h && continue
>>
>> + # FIXME
>> + test "$f" = src/backend/utils/adt/jsonpath_internal.h && continue
>> +
>> # ppport.h is not under our control, so we can't make it standalone.
>> test "$f" = src/pl/plperl/ppport.h && continue
>
> Hm, what's that about?
Don't remember ... ;-) I removed this.
Attached is a new version with the above changes, also updated for the
recently added generate-wait_event_types.pl, and I have adjusted all the
header file linking to use relative paths consistently. This addresses
all issues known to me.
