On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Yes, this is for sure, even using environment variables dedicated to that in multiple machines makes sense. -- Michael
