On ons, 2009-09-02 at 19:24 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:26, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > petere(at)postgresql(dot)org (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
> >> Log Message:
> >> -----------
> >> Derived files that are shipped in the distribution used to be built in the
> >> source directory even for out-of-tree builds. They are now alsl built in
> >> the build tree. This should be more convenient for certain developers'
> >> workflows, and shouldn't really break anything else.
> >
> > Seems to have broken the MSVC build ...
>
> This is the part that broke it:
> diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
> b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
> index fc7dcf5..f14a833 100644
> --- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
> +++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ preproc.y: ../../../backend/parser/gram.y parse.pl
> ecpg.addons ecpg.header ecpg.
>
> ecpg_keywords.o c_keywords.o keywords.o preproc.o parser.o: preproc.h
>
> -kwlookup.c: % : ../../../backend/parser/%
> +kwlookup.c: % : $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/parser/%
> rm -f $@ && $(LN_S) $< .
>
> distprep: preproc.y preproc.c preproc.h pgc.c
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.