Re: doing something about the broken dynloader.h symlink

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: doing something about the broken dynloader.h symlink
Date: 2020-06-19 14:00:51
Message-ID: 1647282.1592575251@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> When you switch a built REL_11_STABLE or earlier to REL_12_STABLE or
> later, you get during make install (or, therefore, make check) an error

While I don't necessarily object to the hack you propose here, it seems
to me that really we need to caution people more strongly about not just
cavalierly checking out a different branch in the same build directory
without fully cleaning up built files (that is, "git clean -dfx" or the
like). There are other gotchas that that creates, and I don't want to
establish a precedent that it's our job to work around them.

regards, tom lane

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