| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Chris Bitmead <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Makefile for parser |
| Date: | 2000-07-01 05:43:50 |
| Message-ID: | 21993.962430230@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Chris Bitmead <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com> writes:
> On the topic of make, have you all read "Recursive Make Considered
> Harmful" at http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html
I read it, I don't believe a word of it. The whole thing is founded on
a bogus example, to which is added specious reasoning and an assumption
that everyone wants to use GCC as compiler plus a nonstandardly-patched
version of GNU make. This is not the real world.
The Postgres build setup is certainly far from ideal, but IMHO the only
thing *really* wrong with it is that we're not constructing accurate
dependency lists by default. I believe Peter E. is planning to
fix that...
regards, tom lane
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