Re: 'out of tree' compile (was: Two weeks to feature freeze)

Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at> writes:
> I do this all the time. Works pretty well. The only minor annoyance
> is that some files are created in the source tree:

Yeah, that's deliberate: those files are shipped in distribution
tarballs (so that tarball users don't have to have bison/flex/perl
to build from a source tarball). So they need to be made in the
source tree. Since they are platform-independent this isn't any
big problem for the normal uses of out-of-tree building. You could
get rid of them I believe by doing a "make maintainer-clean", but
for testing purposes I suspect that's just a waste of cycles. When
the underlying files haven't changed, there's no reason to regenerate
these files.

regards, tom lane