Re: VPath Build Errors

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:44 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The attached log is result of (while in the versioned directory, a
> sibling
> > of the git repo)
> > `../postgresql/configure`
> > `make`
> > `tree`
>
> The VPATH buildfarm members haven't been complaining, and I can't
> reproduce a failure here, so I'm inclined to suspect pilot error.
>
> One point that's not very clearly documented is that your source
> directory needs to be clean; no build products in it, except
> possibly those that are included in tarballs.
>
>
I'll double-check but that would explain it. I know it was not clean when
I tried this.

David J.