Re: Building PostgreSQL in external directory is broken?

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 3:19 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> On 2022-Jul-13, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>
> > results in an error
> >
> > .../src/pgbld/../postgresql/src/include/utils/elog.h:73:10: fatal
> > error: utils/errcodes.h: No such file or directory
> > 73 | #include "utils/errcodes.h"
> >
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Probably what is happening here is that you have build artifacts in the
> source tree after having built there, and that confuses make so not
> everything is rebuilt correctly when you call it from the external build
> dit. I suggest to "git clean -dfx" your source tree, then you can rerun
> configure/make from the external builddir.
>
> FWIW building in external dirs works fine. I use it all the time.

You are right. I made "make distclean" which appears to be not
enough. With "git clean -dfx" correct symlink is generated. Sorry
for the noise.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov