On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
The problem is, I think, that the Makefile format is way too
flexible.
I think the contrib makefiles are considered to be our standard test
suite for PGXS. If a 3rd-party makefile is doing anything not
represented in contrib, it's not guaranteed to work anyway. So I'd
be plenty satisfied if we just made the existing contrib
infrastructure
work for 3rd-party modules.
Is there no platform-independent build system we could take advantage
of?
One reason the Perl community is (very gradually) moving away from
ExtUtils::MakMaker towards Module::Build (pure Perl installer) is to
minimize such issues. I realize that we don't depend on Perl on Unix
platforms, so it wouldn't make sense to use its build system for our
extensions, but perhaps there's something else we could do?
Best,
David
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