| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Required make version |
| Date: | 2008-02-27 13:00:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20080227130024.GA5694@alvh.no-ip.org |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Using the order-only prerequisites feature, which is what is failing with the
> old make version, solves item 1).
>
> The alternative is your suggestion
>
> If the dependencies
> need to stay as they are, maybe we could avoid the annoyance by having
> make not print the echo command.
>
> but I'm not a friend of hiding commands because you don't know what is going
> on and it will come back to bite you.
How about we use order-only prerequisite only if present, and use the
ugly or undesirable way as fallback? I see that you can find out if
your Make version supports it by checking .FEATURES.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Alvaro Herrera | 2008-02-27 13:53:28 | Re: Required make version |
| Previous Message | Florian G. Pflug | 2008-02-27 12:47:55 | Re: An idea for parallelizing COPY within one backend |