Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A14429F9C19 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:43:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41919-01 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:43:15 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-254.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE569F9B49 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:43:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org ([190.95.8.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8A1hLIk014375; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 18:43:22 -0700 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF7D747C64; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:43:18 -0400 (CLT) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:43:18 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: John Summerfield Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: postgresql HEAD build failure Message-ID: <20070910014318.GA12395@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <46E49549.8070408@herakles.homelinux.org> <20070910010147.GA12075@alvh.no-ip.org> <46E49FBB.2050404@herakles.homelinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E49FBB.2050404@herakles.homelinux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.1, clamav-milter version 0.91.1 on projects.commandprompt.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (lists.commandprompt.com [192.168.2.159]); Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:43:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200709/73 X-Sequence-Number: 29286 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.