On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Martha Chronopoulou wrote: > recompile the new source code that I added in some .c files. I suspect > that there must be a quicker way to compile those files than executing > the commands: ./configure, gmake, gmake install... . Could I use only > some Makefiles (the correspodent ones) that there are in each > directory? If yes, how should I use them?
After one have made the first compile and install, it's usually enough to just compile and install a part of pg. For example if you have changed something in psql then you run "make" followed by "make install" in the psql subdirectory of the source. Some changes demand a full new compile ("make clean" and sometimes "make distclean") and some changes demand that you do initdb again, but in most cases one can just compile a part of pg. Then install that part and restart the server. I have a fairly slow computer (800 MHz) and I use ccache which make it much faster to rebuild pg then without. A big difference. I still want a faster computer, but we don't get all we want I'm afraid :-) -- /Dennis Björklund ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html