Re: [HACKERS] 'out of tree' compile (was: Two weeks to feature

[Peter Eisentraut]

Manfred Koizar writes:

> I do this all the time.  Works pretty well.  The only minor annoyance
> is that some files are created in the source tree:

This is intentional, because said files are prebuilt in the distribution,
so they always have to be in the source directory.

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Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: [HACKERS] 'out of tree' compile (was: Two weeks to feature freeze)

[Tom Lane]

Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I do this all the time.  Works pretty well.  The only minor annoyance
> is that some files are created in the source tree:

Yeah, that's deliberate: those files are shipped in distribution
tarballs (so that tarball users don't have to have bison/flex/perl
to build from a source tarball).  So they need to be made in the
source tree.  Since they are platform-independent this isn't any
big problem for the normal uses of out-of-tree building.  You could
get rid of them I believe by doing a "make maintainer-clean", but
for testing purposes I suspect that's just a waste of cycles.  When
the underlying files haven't changed, there's no reason to regenerate
these files.

regards, tom lane

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