Re: Installation of regress.so?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Installation of regress.so?
Date: 2021-05-21 12:38:50
Message-ID: 08dcdacc-38c7-cb40-4627-37880b850ae7@dunslane.net
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On 5/20/21 7:58 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 09:30:37AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'd be okay with it being some sort of non-default option.
> Okay. It would be possible to control that with an environment
> variable. However I am wondering if it would not be more user-friendly
> for automated environments if we had a configure switch to control
> when things related to the tests are installed or not. Say a
> --with-test-install?

That seems a bit tortured. Why should you have to make the decision at
configure time? ISTM all you need is an extra make target that will
install it for you, or a make variable that controls it in the existing
install target.

e.g. make INSTALL_REGRESS_LIB=1 install

cheers

andrew

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