Re: Question: rebuilding frontend tools after libpgfeutils.a changes?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Question: rebuilding frontend tools after libpgfeutils.a changes?
Date: 2026-03-02 14:56:48
Message-ID: 587146.1772463408@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I am wondering whether it would be worth updating the relevant Makefiles so that changes to libpgfeutils.a properly trigger rebuilds of dependent frontend binaries.

I'd vote no, because it would add a lot of usually-pointless cycles to
normal rebuild cases.

Now, I'm a guy who doesn't believe in --enable-depend either, so
your opinion might differ. But it would not be a free improvement.

regards, tom lane

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