Re: Weird corner-case failure mode for VPATH builds

Hi,

On 2020-09-11 13:58:41 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Sep-11, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:49 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > I discovered a problem today while trying to do a VPATH build on
> > > a machine I don't use that often:
> > >
> > > $ make
> > > ...
> > > In file included from /home/tgl/pgsql/src/include/postgres.h:47,
> > > from /home/tgl/pgsql/src/common/hashfn.c:24:
> > > /home/tgl/pgsql/src/include/utils/elog.h:71:10: fatal error: utils/errcodes.h: No such file or directory
> > > 71 | #include "utils/errcodes.h"
> > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > compilation terminated.
> >
> > I think I've seen this before, but I don't have an opinion on how to fix it.
>
> Me too. It would be useful to have a way to report that build artifacts
> are in the source dir that should be in the build dir. I don't know if
> this is in any way workable.

"git clean -nx" should list them for vpath builds.

Regards,

Andres