Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Yes, I agree they are very useful, although not quite as detailed as what I had in mind. andrew Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures.

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be > a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Have you looked at Bruce's presentations? There are a couple of sets of slides available from http://developer.postgr

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
A more ambitious project, and one which seems to me worthwhile, would be a descriptive tour of the source code and data structures. Something larger than an FAQ and (one hopes) smaller than a book. The existence of such things is useful in bootstrapping newbies (like me) in Linux kernel stuff,

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:47, Philip Yarra wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) > > I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together > some of these 'gotchas' into a neophyte-deve

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread Philip Yarra
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just part of the baptism of fire for a newbie, I guess. :-) I've found the learning curve pretty steep too. Is it worth putting together some of these 'gotchas' into a neophyte-developer-FAQ? As a side note: anyone else noticed that devel

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
> > Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. > > Is that piece of information in the developers FAQ anywhere? > > It's in the "how to use CVS" instructions ... So it is. I probably read that before I got CVS working here, and it isn't mentioned (or that section of the docs

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I suspect you forgot "-d" in your cvs update commands. You really need >> both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea >> why they are not the default behavior. > Yep, that solved both the make clean and the coredump problems. > Is that piece

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread nolan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Make clean fails on an up-to-date CVS (as of 2:40 PM CDT on Sunday). > > > make: *** tsearch2: No such file or directory. Stop. > > I suspect you forgot "-d" in your cvs update commands. You really need > both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I

Re: [HACKERS] Make clean fails

2003-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Make clean fails on an up-to-date CVS (as of 2:40 PM CDT on Sunday). > make: *** tsearch2: No such file or directory. Stop. I suspect you forgot "-d" in your cvs update commands. You really need both -d and -P to make cvs update behave reasonably ... I have no idea w