Re: [HACKERS] "make check" with non-GNU make

2017-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm, looking into Makefile.global.in, that step seems to be conditional on >> MAKELEVEL: > Ah, right. That coding is recommended in the GNU make manual to > distinguish from explicit invocation and recursive invocation. >

Re: [HACKERS] "make check" with non-GNU make

2017-08-08 Thread Thomas Munro
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Munro writes: >> Does anyone know why "make check" doesn't work on BSD systems if >> tmp_install doesn't exist yet? It's no big deal, you just have to run >> "gmake check", but Makefile is supposed to do that for you and it >> works fine f

Re: [HACKERS] "make check" with non-GNU make

2017-08-08 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > Does anyone know why "make check" doesn't work on BSD systems if > tmp_install doesn't exist yet? It's no big deal, you just have to run > "gmake check", but Makefile is supposed to do that for you and it > works fine for every other target. No big deal, but it'd be nice t

[HACKERS] "make check" with non-GNU make

2017-08-08 Thread Thomas Munro
Hi hackers, Does anyone know why "make check" doesn't work on BSD systems if tmp_install doesn't exist yet? It's no big deal, you just have to run "gmake check", but Makefile is supposed to do that for you and it works fine for every other target. No big deal, but it'd be nice to unravel this my