Hi, On 2023-05-26 09:02:33 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 24.05.23 23:24, Andres Freund wrote: > > 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? > > I don't think so.
Maybe we should just error out in that case, instead of failing in an obscure way down the line? > > 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... > > The "copying" is actually a symlink, right? I don't think we want to ship > symlinks in the tarball? Fair point - still seems we should just create the files in the right directory instead of doing it in the wrong place and then creating symlinks to make them accessible... Greetings, Andres Freund
