On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Whilst fooling around with GIN, I have repeatedly observed that doing > >> "make" in src/backend/access/gin, followed by "make install-bin" in > >> src/backend, fails to rebuild the postgres executable --- it just > >> installs the existing one. A second execution of "make install-bin" > >> does notice that postgres is out of date and rebuilds it. This > >> procedure for rebuilding after changing one or two .c files has always > >> worked for me before. I can't avoid the suspicion that the recent > >> changes to make things more parallel-friendly broke something. > > > I've noticed something like this as well, but haven't been able to > > figure out exactly what is going wrong. > > I'm not entirely sure either, but it looks like the first upper "make" > updates the objfiles.txt file in src/backend/access and then the second > one realizes it has to rebuild postgres. Something about multi-level > dependencies isn't quite right.
I had a weirdness with the dependency files a few days ago. The error was a missing delimiter : at the end of one of the files. Stopped everything cold until I added that character, then re-configured and not a hint of the earlier problem. Sounds like dependency is a common issue. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
