Hi, On 2023-10-09 12:16:23 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 06.10.23 20:50, Andres Freund wrote: > > The only thing I wonder is whether we ought to keep a maintainer-clean > > target (as an alias to distclean), so that extensions that added things > > to maintainer-clean continue to work. > > The patch does do that.
It kinda works, but I'm not sure how well. Because the aliasing happens in Makefile.global, we won't know about the "original" maintainer-clean target once recursing into a subdir. That's perhaps OK, because extensions likely won't utilize subdirectories? But I'm not sure. I know that some people build postgres extensions by adding them to contrib/, in those cases it won't work. OTOH, it seems somewhat unlikely that maintainer-clean is utilized much in extensions. I see it in things like postgis, but that has it's own configure etc, even though it also invokes pgxs. I wish we had an easy way of a) downloading most working open-source extensions b) building many of those Greetings, Andres Freund
