Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improve logic for finding object files on OBJS lines in contrib

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
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>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> Log Message:
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>>> Improve logic for finding object files on OBJS lines in contrib Makefiles. If this unbreaks buildfarm mastodon, apply everywhere.
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>> I start to wonder why don't we just implement our own make in Perl ...
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> http://search.cpan.org/~mhosken/Font-Fret-1.202/pmake.bat
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The point is not to emulate make. Gmake for windows already exists,
anyway. The point is that building for MSVC is so very different from
the way you build everywhere else. Our current tools build MSVC project
files and then drive the build from there. Having a make equivalent
won't help us much.

cheers

andrew