On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 21:05, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On ons, 2009-09-02 at 19:24 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> -kwlookup.c: % : ../../../backend/parser/%
>>> +kwlookup.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/%
>>> rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
>
>> I think you can revert this if it helps you, although it's not clear to
>> me why it would make a difference one way or the other.
>
> It looks to me like Magnus' git tool has gotten the direction of the
> change backwards --- $(top_srcdir) was the old coding, which was like
> every other place that is symlinking something, and the new ../../ bit
> is gratuitously unlike the rest. I imagine the point is that the MSVC
> scripts only know how to deal with the $(top_srcdir) form.
Um, right, that's the patch that fixes the problem, not that causes it :-) S'ry.
And yes, that's what happened.
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