On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wrote: >> I think what is happening here is that make launches concurrent sub-jobs >> to do "make install" in each of interfaces/libpq and interfaces/ecpg, >> and the latter launches a sub-sub-job to do "make all" in >> interfaces/libpq, and make has no idea that these are duplicate sub-jobs >> so it actually tries to run both concurrently. Whereupon you get all >> sorts of fun failures. I'm not sure if there is any cure that's not >> worse than the disease. > > BTW, how many people here have read "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"? > > http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf > > Because what we're presently doing looks mighty similar to what he's > saying doesn't work and can't be made to work.
I'm not sure whether it makes sense to go that far or not. But I think it'd make sense to at least try this for the backend. It does seem pretty silly to have a Makefile in every single directory. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
