Hi Alexander, > Assuming postgres sources located in postgresql directory, the > following sequence of commands > > mkdir -p pgbld > cd pgbld > ../postgresql/configure --disable-debug --disable-cassert --enable-tap-tests > make -j4 > > ... > > It seems strange to me that I'm the first one discovering this. Am I > missing something?
To be honest, this is the first time I see anyone trying to build a project that is using Autotools from an external directory :) I checked the documentation [1] and it doesn't seem that we claim to support this. Also I tried your patch on MacOS Monterey 12.4 and it didn't work. I get the following error: ``` ... ar: cryptohash.o: No such file or directory ar: hmac.o: No such file or directory ar: sha1.o: No such file or directory ar: sha2.o: No such file or directory ``` ... with or without the patch. My guess would be that the reason no one discovered this before is that this is in fact not supported and/or tested on CI. Could you give an example of when this can be useful? [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-short.html -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
