On 2024-Apr-04, Regina Obe wrote: > I think I got something not too far off from what's there now that works > under my msys2 setup again. This is partly using your idea of using > $(top_builddir) to qualify the path but in the LN_S section that is causing > me grief. > This seems to work okay building in tree and out of tree. > By changing these lines in src/backend/Makefile > > $(top_builddir)/src/include/storage/lwlocknames.h: storage/lmgr/lwlocknames.h > rm -f '$@' > - $(LN_S) ../../backend/$< '$@' > + $(LN_S) $(top_builddir)/src/backend/$< '$@' > > $(top_builddir)/src/include/utils/wait_event_types.h: > utils/activity/wait_event_types.h > rm -f '$@' > - $(LN_S) ../../backend/$< '$@' > + $(LN_S) $(top_builddir)/src/backend/$< '$@' > > I've also attached as a patch.
Hmm, that's quite strange ... it certainly doesn't work for me. Maybe the LN_S utility is resolving the symlink at creation time, rather than letting it be a reference to be resolved later. Apparently, the only Msys2 buildfarm animal is now using Meson, so we don't have any representative animal for your situation. What does LN_S do for you anyway? Looking at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61594025/symlink-in-msys2-copy-or-hard-link it sounds like this would work if the MSYS environment variable was set to winsymlinks (or maybe not. I don't know if a "windows shortcut" would be usable in this case.) -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Nadie está tan esclavizado como el que se cree libre no siéndolo" (Goethe)
