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

On 05/16/2013 10:39 AM, Cédric Villemain wrote:
> Le jeudi 16 mai 2013 15:51:48, Tom Lane a écrit :
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> On 05/16/2013 05:41 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>>>> And VPATH building of extension is crucially important for me, as the
>>>> easiest way I've found to build and package a given extension against
>>>> all currently supported version of PostgreSQL.
>>> Is there documented support for VPATH builds?
>> The core code certainly builds okay in VPATH mode, and I would agree
>> with Dimitri that pgxs builds should as well. But this is more of an
>> autoconf+make feature than ours, so I'm not sure why you'd expect us
>> to document it.
> Extension does not support VPATH at 100% (well, pgxs.mk).
> There is a minor hack for some REGRESS files but that's all.

Right. My impression is that pgxs.mk actively works against vpath builds.

>
> I think at least DOCS, DATA and REGRESS needs some addition on pgxs.mk to help
> extension author allows build out-of-tree (postgresql been built out or not).
>
> I'll work on a patch for that.

OK, great.

cheers

andrew