Re: Something fishy about the current Makefiles

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Whilst fooling around with GIN, I have repeatedly observed that doing
> "make" in src/backend/access/gin, followed by "make install-bin" in
> src/backend, fails to rebuild the postgres executable --- it just
> installs the existing one.  A second execution of "make install-bin"
> does notice that postgres is out of date and rebuilds it.  This
> procedure for rebuilding after changing one or two .c files has always
> worked for me before.  I can't avoid the suspicion that the recent
> changes to make things more parallel-friendly broke something.

I've noticed something like this as well, but haven't been able to
figure out exactly what is going wrong.

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