On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: >> People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend >> to configure (when not using my own environment). Which then leads to >> strange errors that cost time to track down... > > One argument against that is that we only support dependency tracking > with GCC, so we would have to either fail configure or use a different > default depending on the compiler. > > It's also unreasonable to assume, I think, that just turning on > --enable-depend by default will eliminate forgot-a-configure-option > mistakes. In most cases, you want to turn on most or all --enable-* and > --with-* options to get good build and test coverage.
Yeah, I have alias dev-configure='./configure --appropriate-stuff-for-this-machine' on every system where I work on PG. I imagine others do something similar. -- 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
