> On 28 Sep 2021, at 00:55, Rachel Heaton <rachelmhea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While developing I got this error and it was difficult to figure out what was > going on. > > Thanks to Jacob, I was able to learn the context of the failure, so we > created this small patch. I can see that, and I think this patch makes sense even though we don't have much of a precedent for outputting informational messages from Makefiles. > The text of the error message, of course, is up for debate, but hopefully > this will make it more clear to others. + echo 'libpq must not call exit'; exit 1; \ Since it's not actually libpq which calls exit (no such patch would ever be committed), I think it would be clearer to indicate that a library linked to is the culprit. How about something like "libpq must not be linked against any library calling exit"? -- Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
