From: | John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: failing to build preproc.c on solaris with sun studio |
Date: | 2022-09-08 03:01:47 |
Message-ID: | CAFBsxsGUKoLErsebsUjkB6zeUL3YcjenNk1UZprjsGjQRD9ZpQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 1:45 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 05.09.22 23:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> >> Why is this being proposed?
> >
> > Andres is annoyed by the long build time of ecpg, which he has to
> > wait for whether he wants to test it or not. I could imagine that
> > I might disable ecpg testing on my slowest buildfarm animals, too.
> >
> > I suppose maybe we could compromise on inventing --with-ecpg but
> > having it default to "on", so that you have to take positive
> > action if you don't want it.
>
> We already have "make all" vs. "make world" to build just the important
> stuff versus everything. And we have "make world-bin" to build,
> approximately, everything except the slow stuff. Let's try to work
> within the existing mechanisms. For example, removing ecpg from "make
> all" might be sensible.
>
> (Obviously, "all" is then increasingly becoming a lie. Maybe a renaming
> like "all" -> "core" and "world" -> "all" could be in order.)
>
> The approach with the make targets is better than a configure option,
> because it allows you to build a narrow set of things during development
> and then build everything for final confirmation, without having to
> re-run configure. Also, it's less confusing for packagers.
Another point is that the --with-FOO options are intended for building
and linking with external library FOO.
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John Naylor
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