Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"
Date: 2013-05-14 11:56:00
Message-ID: 51922650.2090805@gmx.net
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On 5/13/13 10:58 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I'm not sure why the wildcard is a bad idea - don't we want any present
> update sql files to be installed?

Generally, wildcards in makefiles are a bad idea because you will then
not discover any broken tarballs and checkouts. The users will just
install nothing or a subset of the files you had intended.

It might also break vpath builds. That can probably be worked around,
though.

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