On 01.07.21 16:47, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 6/2/21 4:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
I'm inclined to agree with Alvaro that the messages are at best an
oddity. Standard Unix practice is to be silent on success.
We've been steadily moving towards less chatter during builds.
I'd be good with dropping these messages in HEAD, but doing so
in the back branches might be inadvisable.
OK, I think on reflection new targets will be cleaner. What I suggest is
the attached, applied to all branches, followed by removal of the four
noise messages in just HEAD.
This naming approach is a bit problematic. For example, we have
"install-bin" in src/backend/, which is specifically for only installing
binaries, not data files etc. (hence the name). Your proposal would
confuse this scheme.
I think we should also take a step back here and consider: We had "all",
which wasn't "all" enough, then we had "world", now we have
"world-minus-a-bit", but it's still more than "all". It's like we are
trying to prove the continuum hypothesis here.
I think we had consensus on the make variable approach, so I'm confused
why a different solution was committed and backpatched without discussion.
