On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> This is definitely not per make's contract, either. I think maybe the >>> "Don't rebuild the list if only the OBJS have changed" hack in common.mk >>> is a brick or two shy of a load, but I don't know how to fix that. > >> I feel like it's been this way for a while - at least I feel like I've >> noticed this before. I think there is some inevitable kludginess >> around having one makefile per subdirectory that leads to these kinds >> of issues. Maybe we should get rid of all the makefiles under >> src/backend except for the top-level one and just do everything there. > > I mentioned this paper last year, but maybe it's time to start > taking it seriously: > http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
+1 from me. I don't know that just fixing src/backend will do a whole lot to improve build times in and of itself, but I do think it might reduce the required amount of alchemy to keep things working. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
