Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think this can be used with a conditional like
>
> ifneq (,$(findstring order-only,$(.FEATURES)))
> ...
> endif
Yes, that was my thought.
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> How about we use order-only prerequisite only if present, and use the
> ugly or undesirable way as fallback? I see that you can find out if
> your Make version supports it by checking .FEATURES.
I think this can be used with a conditional like
ifneq (,$(findstring order-
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Using the order-only prerequisites feature, which is what is failing with the
> old make version, solves item 1).
>
> The alternative is your suggestion
>
> If the dependencies
> need to stay as they are, maybe we could avoid the annoyance by having
> make
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... This was in response to your request
> So obviously, there are a few possible solutions. We just have to
> pick one we like best.
Check.
> We could actually query make whether it supports order-only prerequisites and
> only use the developer-op
Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > only objfiles.txt uses the somewhat arcane feature that is apparently
> > breaking dawn_bat - it is apparently not used anywhere else in our build
> > system.
> >
> > Is that really the only way we can do it? Maybe Peter understands i
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> only objfiles.txt uses the somewhat arcane feature that is apparently
> breaking dawn_bat - it is apparently not used anywhere else in our build
> system.
> Is that really the only way we can do it? Maybe Peter understands it but
> I don't, and I'm n
Tom Lane wrote:
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
There is a build farm failure now because (apparently) an old make version:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dawn_bat&dt=2008-02-26%2019:00:01
The new amended backend linking code needs GNU make 3.8
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is a build farm failure now because (apparently) an old make version:
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dawn_bat&dt=2008-02-26%2019:00:01
> The new amended backend linking code needs GNU make 3.80, released
> 2002-10-03.
There is a build farm failure now because (apparently) an old make version:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dawn_bat&dt=2008-02-26%2019:00:01
The new amended backend linking code needs GNU make 3.80, released 2002-10-03.
Should we just require that? I think the PARTIAL_L
