Re: Contrib PROGRAM problem

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Contrib PROGRAM problem
Date: 2013-01-19 14:24:49
Message-ID: 50FAACB1.8060505@dunslane.net
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On 01/19/2013 12:13 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 01/18/2013 11:59 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The above is the way it's done everywhere else in the source tree.
>>
>> I think the reason this works is that either make or the system call
>> that make uses is aware of this naming issue somehow.
>
>
> Oh, hmm, all these years playing with this stuff and I never realized
> msys make had these smarts built in, as it apparently does:
>
>

*sigh*. Don't post after midnight. Of course, this isn't relevant to a
cross-compiling environment, where repeated invocations of make
repeatedly build the executables.

The question is whether we care enough about this case to fix it.

cheers

andrew

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