On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 05:48:49PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:44 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.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.
Note that if you what you want is building multiple major versions at the same time, the easiest way to do that is probably to use git worktrees [1] and checkout multiple branches of the same repo at the same times, and then build each one as you'd normally do. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
