pgsql: Fix incorrect parallel build of jsonapi.o with Makefiles.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: pgsql: Fix incorrect parallel build of jsonapi.o with Makefiles.
Date: 2026-09-30 19:58:42
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Fix incorrect parallel build of jsonapi.o with Makefiles.

Commit 0785d1b8b wrote

jsonapi_shlib.o: override CPPFLAGS += -DJSONAPI_USE_PQEXPBUFFER

forgetting that GNU make treats this change to CPPFLAGS as affecting
not only jsonapi_shlib.o, but anything that gets built in pursuit of
building jsonapi_shlib.o. Because of an even more ancient hack
(cf 7143b3e82), that will include jsonapi.o if it's not been built
already. If we do apply this -D switch to jsonapi.o, it gets built
with the wrong expansible-string infrastructure, which manifests
immediately as a link failure in pg_combinebackup and would misbehave
at runtime even if the build somehow completed.

Perhaps remarkably, we'd not seen field reports of build failures
till now, but it's pretty easy to reproduce a mis-build by trying
to build src/common/ with --shuffle and a high -j factor.

To fix, don't modify CPPFLAGS this way; instead make a dedicated
build rule for jsonapi_shlib.o that injects the additional switches.

There might be other places with similar problems, but some desultory
attempts with -j32 --shuffle on a 32-thread CPU didn't find any more
build failures. Also, it looks like the meson build infrastructure
lacks this problem (but I'm no meson expert).

Bug: #19727
Reported-by: Ross Burton <ross(at)burtonini(dot)com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Reviewed-by: Ross Burton <ross(at)burtonini(dot)com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19727-32d67d9dea410f38@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
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REL_18_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a70876d7bf44feb41b431daf7baca07d7413d2ef

Modified Files
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src/common/Makefile | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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