Re: psql session log

In <200501041449(dot)j04Enjj00851(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, on 01/04/05
at 09:49 AM, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> said:

>Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> lsunley(at)mb(dot)sympatico(dot)ca wrote:
>> > NOTE - the patch to the makefile is to keep it from constantly
>> > building psql.exe as the target "psql" all by itself is never created
>> > as the output executable on OS/2 and Windows is psql.exe.
>>
>> If this were a problem on Windows, we'd have more problems all over the
>> place, not only in psql's makefile. On Cygwin, I know there is no
>> problem, because of the peculiar way that the system calls map the file
>> names. Not sure what native Windows does.

>I tested this on MinGW and didn't have the rebuild problem either. gmake
>seems to know the .exe is implied. I wonder if this is an OS/2 gmake
>bug.

Looks like it could be...

I even added an explicit .SUFFIXES: .exe and it will still build the exe
file when it is present from a make just done.

what a PITA

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