On 12/11/16 1:52 PM, Jim Nasby wrote: > On 12/9/16 9:53 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure what --no-recursion does, but I would say that we'd >>> consider that unsupported as well. >> >> Interesting. Running config.status adds those --no-create --no-recursion >> flags automatically. You can see them in the command-line at the top of >> config.log, too. I never bothered to check what they do... > > AIUI they have to do with config dependency checking (where a simple > make will detect if config needs to run again or not). I've been bitten > by this in the past as well. Maybe there's a way to get config to spit > out a warning for those options and have make filter the warning out.
When config.status is out of date against configure, then Makefile.global runs config.status --recheck, which internally runs the original configure line with --no-create and --no-recursion added. --no-create means not to create any output files, because the makefile rules will create those. --no-recursion means not to run any configure scripts in subdirectories (we don't use that functionality). It's arguably a bit confusing that config.log then records the configure line with --no-create and --no-recursion added. But other than that, everything works as intended. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers