From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Hennessy <greg(dot)hennessy(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: missing requirement on ccache in postgresql16-devel |
Date: | 2023-10-25 18:36:50 |
Message-ID: | ZTlgQp16bA70zQWu@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 01:21:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 11:25:15AM -0400, Greg Hennessy wrote:
> >> The file /usr/pgsql-16/lib/pgxs/src/Makefile.global has a reference
> >> to ccache but the rpm doesn't list this as a dependency. I would like
> >> to submit that it is a bug that it does not.
>
> > Uh, ccache is an _optional_ way to speed up compilation. It is not a
> > requirement/dependency.
>
> Yeah, but if the Makefile says "CC = ccache gcc" then anybody
> trying to build under PGXS will fail if they don't have ccache
> installed. So I think Greg has a point.
Well, the question is where can we see this file,
/usr/pgsql-16/lib/pgxs/src/Makefile.global? Who created it? What does
it contain?
Mine is built from Makefile.global.in, and has:
CC = ccache gcc
but I define CC='ccache gcc' before I run autoconf.
> On typical Red Hat setups, it's not necessary to mention ccache
> explicitly to use it; instead that's managed via PATH. For
> example, I have
>
> $ which gcc
> /usr/lib64/ccache/gcc
>
> $ ls -l /usr/lib64/ccache/gcc
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 May 21 09:35 /usr/lib64/ccache/gcc -> ../../bin/ccache
Oh, I have not done that. I like to know when ccache is being used.
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