On Jan 9, 2008 9:51 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Warren Turkal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering if there is a reason that the flex and bison and other > > generated source files end up in the source directory when doing an > > out-of-tree build. Would a patch that puts those files in the build > > trees be accepted? > > Probably not, since our intention is that those files be distributed as > part of source tarballs.
That makes sense. > Also, since they are (or should be) architecture-independent, what's the > point? Out-of-tree builds are intended to support building for multiple > architectures in parallel; but there's no reason to force independent > reconstructions of these common derived files. I was not building multiple builds in parallel as I thought they might get fouled by the different builds. Since they do appear to not change, I think they are just fine. Thanks for the help! wt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
