"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, since they are (or should be) architecture-independent, what's the > point? Out-of-tree builds are intended to support building for multiple > architectures in parallel; but there's no reason to force independent > reconstructions of these common derived files.
That's not the only reason for out-of-tree builds. Packagers often find it easier to build out-of-tree since it means they can generate a clean diff against the original source. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
