Hi, On 2016-01-04 15:59:46 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > The list of objects used to link pg_xlogdump is coming from > $(wildcard *desc.c) which returns them in filesystem order. This makes > the build result depend on this ordering, yielding different > compilation results.
> -RMGRDESCSOURCES = $(notdir $(wildcard > $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/access/rmgrdesc/*desc.c)) > +RMGRDESCSOURCES = $(sort $(notdir $(wildcard > $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/access/rmgrdesc/*desc.c))) > RMGRDESCOBJS = $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(RMGRDESCSOURCES)) That's probably not the only non-deterministic rule in postgres, given nobody paid attention tot that so far? At least transform modules added in 9.5 (hstore_plpython et al) look like they might similar issues. Wonder if we should instead define a wildcard wrapper in Makefile.global.in that does the sorting, including an explanation? Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers