On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > I definitely can see some advantages. Non-broken dependencies around > recursive make being a major one. But I'm also afraid it's a rather > large undertaking. There's a fair number of special kind of rules, and > we're probably not going to want to break pgxs for extensions.
Maybe we should merge all of the makefiles for subdirectories of src/backend into a single makefile. The major disadvantage would be that you couldn't rebuild a subdirectory any more by typing make -C src/backend/executor or whatever. And I do do that sometimes, so maybe it would be annoying, but presumably it would make the dependency issues a lot easier to deal with. I guess I'm a bit skeptical about the idea of porting to a new build system. There's a good chance of replacing the problems we know about with new problems that are no less serious, but merely unknown to us. But I'm not going to stand here and hold my breath if everyone else thinks it's a good idea. -- 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
