On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Alvaro Herrera<alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Robert Haas escribió: > >> *shrug* You don't have to accept the patch, but I'm unclear as to how >> make from a subdirectory will ever work reliably without something >> like this. The problem occurs when .c files have dependencies on >> files that are generated by a Makefile in some other subdirectory. So >> it's not random stuff: it's the stuff where that particular thing >> happens. > > But what use would have to build that particular .o file, and not the > whole postgres binary?
I don't think that I can spell it out any more clearly than I did in the paragraph immediately preceding the one you have quoted here. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
