Hi Dimitris, > I just spent 2 miserable days tracking down a very weird issue. I ended up > stepping through the code in the debugger. As it turned out, the very same > moment of execution, one datastructure (struct _restoreOptions defined in > pg_backup.h) contained different fields on one data frame than another! > This was the result of one object file *not* being re-compiled as needed, > after applying my patch that added that extra field to the datastructure > in pg_backup.h. > > This caused weird and completely irrelevant failures, as unexpected fields > of the struct were changing value. > > I then found that I need to compile with --enable-depend to have Makefiles > with proper dependency tracking. Shouldn't it be the default, at least for > non-release builds?
I sympathize but realistically I doubt that someone is going to do something about it. Autotools slowly approaches its end of life and for Meson we don't seem to have an equivalent of --enable-depend. On top of that I imagine how one could argue that these options should be independent. -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
