Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > Now you could argue that we could just rewrite to non-recursive > make. But that'd be nearly as much work as migrating to another > buildsystem.
I'm sure it'd be a significant amount of work ... but it wouldn't require redesigning any configuration or portability hacks, nor any change in tool prerequisites, and at least in principle it wouldn't require changes in users' build scripts. So I think claiming it's as expensive as migrating to cmake is almost certainly wrong. (I don't know offhand if tricks like "build plpython only" would still work unchanged, but that's a sufficiently niche usage that I'd not be too concerned about making those people adapt their scripts.) regards, tom lane