| From: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal(at)pivotal(dot)io> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Use LN_S instead of "ln -s" in Makefile |
| Date: | 2020-02-15 14:58:22 |
| Message-ID: | 770eab6f-4d3f-147c-cae8-624e7c19bd50@proxel.se |
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On 2/15/20 1:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hm. So, these oversights are certainly bugs in narrow terms. However,
> they've all been like that for a *long* time --- the three instances
> you found date to 2005, 2006, and 2008 according to "git blame".
> The complete lack of complaints shows that nobody cares. So I think
> a fairly strong case could be made for going the other way, ie
> s/$(LN_S)/ln -s/g and get rid of the configure-time cycles wasted in
> setting up that variable.
Here is a patch which does that.
Andreas
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| remove-ln_s.patch | text/x-patch | 7.8 KB |
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