Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D789FB964; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:36:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88347-01; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:35:58 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from smtp5.clear.net.nz (smtp5.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.68]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC4D9FB92E; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:35:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (121-72-77-1.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.77.1]) by smtp5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JI2004A0CNWSA20@smtp5.clear.net.nz>; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:35:57 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:35:45 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [PATCHES] OS/X startup scripts In-reply-to: <20070515024451.GI4429@alvh.no-ip.org> To: Alvaro Herrera Cc: David Fetter , Tom Lane , Andrew Dunstan , PostgreSQL Docs , PostgreSQL Patches Message-id: <46492A91.20007@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20070513211526.GF14860@fetter.org> <20797.1179096579@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4647998C.3000103@dunslane.net> <20070514011826.GI14860@fetter.org> <23143.1179107513@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20070514015805.GK14860@fetter.org> <4647D81C.7080802@paradise.net.nz> <20070514173556.GW14860@fetter.org> <20070514191615.GA31201@alvh.no-ip.org> <464912F0.6010005@paradise.net.nz> <20070515024451.GI4429@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070313) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/39 X-Sequence-Number: 4268 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >>> Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be >>> huge. To work around that you need to create a list of files to >>> exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to >>> get unmanageable. >> $ make maintainer-clean >> >> before the diff, which clears all those out. > > Yeah, but then if you make a mistake with the patch and have to build > again to retest, you have to wait the whole thing to compile, which can > be annoying. > True - depends on the speed of your machine as to how annoying this really is... (I'm using a PIII 1.26 GHz... takes 5 min with -O2 - good excuse for a coffee etc). However, as David brought up previously it is probably worth mentioning several of the various CVS work-arounds in the docs, so people at least get a good survey of the options - they can then choose whichever suits their needs best. Cheers Mark