Re: Required make version

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>
>> There is a build farm failure now because (apparently) an old make version:
>> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dawn_bat&dt=2008-02-26%2019:00:01
>>
>
>
>> The new amended backend linking code needs GNU make 3.80, released 2002-10-03.
>>
>
> Are you sure you've diagnosed this correctly? I built last night with
> make 3.79.1 without any obvious problem. OTOH I haven't yet tracked
> the commits you made today.
>
>
>

only objfiles.txt uses the somewhat arcane feature that is apparently
breaking dawn_bat - it is apparently not used anywhere else in our build
system.

Is that really the only way we can do it? Maybe Peter understands it but
I don't, and I'm not sure I want to invest lots of brain cells in
finding out.

cheers

andrew