Re: Make frontend programs relink after libpgfeutils changes

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Yingying Chen <cyy9255(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Make frontend programs relink after libpgfeutils changes
Date: 2026-06-16 12:44:44
Message-ID: ajFEw7rH8b5u_KhT@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2026-Jun-16, Yingying Chen wrote:

> I tried the patch, and it works properly. But I see meson automatically
> rebuilds some more tools than src/bin/ tools, such as
> contrib/oid2name/oid2name, src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/pg_bsd_indent, etc., do
> you plan to handle them also?

Hmm, isn't that bogus? oid2name at least doesn't depend on fe_utils as
far as I can see. Maybe meson is overeagerly inheriting that dependency
from somewhere else. If that's the case then we don't want Make to do
the same (though I don't dare suggest to clean up Meson not to.)

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