From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: dependencies for generated header files |
Date: | 2009-08-12 01:02:54 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070908111802t36b563eetd6d9dea12546099b@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Alvaro
Herrera<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>
>> *shrug* You don't have to accept the patch, but I'm unclear as to how
>> make from a subdirectory will ever work reliably without something
>> like this. The problem occurs when .c files have dependencies on
>> files that are generated by a Makefile in some other subdirectory. So
>> it's not random stuff: it's the stuff where that particular thing
>> happens.
>
> But what use would have to build that particular .o file, and not the
> whole postgres binary?
I don't think that I can spell it out any more clearly than I did in
the paragraph immediately preceding the one you have quoted here.
...Robert
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