On fre, 2010-04-02 at 06:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > Forgive me for being a little annoyed here, but I actually did follow > that document quite closely. Unfortunately it omits to mention a few > key points.
Sorry, I had suspected that you didn't do a clean cvs export. It was a frequent problem in the old days. > What actually happened here is that I discovered that I couldn't run > "make distcheck" on a clean source tree. configure needs to be run > first, and the fine documentation makes no mention of what options > should be used. Doesn't matter. Just ./configure is enough. > So naturally I just ran my dev-configure alias, which > also creates a one-line Makefile.custom. Now maybe I should have > realized that this was going to lead to bad things happening, but I > didn't. Ah, well, nothing can guard against that. ;-) > The wiki page in fact makes no reference at all to the state > that one's source tree should be in when doing all of this; it just > didn't occur to me that any random crap I happened to have lying > around there was going to get shipped. The state is that after a cvs export. > I'm obviously very sorry for the hassle and frustration caused by this > mistake, especially to Dave Page, but hopefully you understand that I > was trying rather hard to get this right; and perhaps the Wiki page > can also be improved to mention some of these details. Please add your findings. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
