Hi, On 2023-05-23 14:51:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > I guess I need to go and check how long the "release" tarball generation > > takes... > > It's quick except for the documentation-generating steps. Maybe > we could test that part only once?
First thing I noticed that 'make dist' doesn't work in a vpath, failing in a somewhat obscure way (likely because in a vpath build the the copy from the source dir doesn't include GNUMakefile). Do we expect it to work? Besides docs, the slowest part appears to be gzip --best and then bzip2, as those runs serially and takes 11 and 13 seconds respectively here... The first thing I tried was: make -j8 dist GZIP=pigz BZIP2=pbzip2 unfortunately that results in pigz: abort: cannot provide files in GZIP environment variable echo GZIP=pigz >> src/Makefile.custom echo BZIP2=pbzip2 >> src/Makefile.custom reduces that to real 1m6.472s user 1m28.316s sys 0m5.340s real 0m54.811s user 1m42.078s sys 0m6.183s still not great... OTOH, we currently already build the docs as part of the CompilerWarnings test. I don't think there's a reason to test that twice? For me make distcheck currently fails: In file included from ../../src/include/postgres.h:46, from hashfn.c:24: ../../src/include/utils/elog.h:79:10: fatal error: utils/errcodes.h: No such file or directory 79 | #include "utils/errcodes.h" | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[3]: *** [<builtin>: hashfn.o] Error 1 at first I thought it was due to my use of -j8 - but it doesn't even work without that. That's due to MAKELEVEL: submake-generated-headers: ifndef NO_GENERATED_HEADERS ifeq ($(MAKELEVEL),0) $(MAKE) -C $(top_builddir)/src/backend generated-headers endif endif So the distcheck target needs to reset MAKELEVEL=0 - unless somebody has a better idea? Separately, it's somewhat confusing that we include errcodes.h etc in src/backend/utils, rather than its final location, in src/include/utils. It works, even without perl, because copying the file doesn't require perl, it's just generating it... Greetings, Andres Freund