Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 11:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> [ blink... ] I'd vote for making them precious all the time. No such >> behavioral change was discussed or agreed to,
> This is standard, default make behavior. It only showed up here because > the coverage processing doesn't list all the files it needs in make > rules. Yeah, I know it's "default", but it's not how our make files ever treated these files before. At the risk of repeating myself: a change of this sort was not discussed nor agreed to. And I'm not agreeing to it. I don't care for the idea that the build tree after a regular make might not include all files that would be in a distribution tarball. A concrete usage case that this breaks is doing something like find . -name '*.c' | xargs grep whatever Up to now I've always been able to assume that that would catch occurrences of "whatever" coming from *.y and *.l files. No more though. Maybe the derived *.c files are there, or maybe they're not --- it'll be really history-dependent. Please just make them precious. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers