From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: John Summerfield <postgres@herakles.homelinux.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: postgresql HEAD build failure
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:43:18 -0400
Message-ID: <20070910014318.GA12395@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E49FBB.2050404@herakles.homelinux.org>
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John Summerfield wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hmm, try deleting the build tree and start again. Sometimes, what
>> happens to me is that somebody adds a new directory, and my build tree
>> does not contain it. It's easy to fix: when I had a slower computer
>> what I did was create the offending directory and symlink the makefile.
>> Nowadays I just wipe the whole thing and let the build directory be
>> constructed again by configure. That gets things in sync.
>
> that, I think, subverts the purpose of cvs and other SCMTs, but...
No, it doesn't. Note that I suggested only deleting the *build* dir,
not the source dir. I use VPATH builds -- I never delete my source
dirs.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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