Re: Remove distprep

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-08-09T14:38:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

Thanks for sending the -packagers email Peter!

On 2023-08-09 16:25:28 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Tom Lane
> > Meh ... the fact that it works fine for you doesn't mean it will work
> > fine elsewhere.  Since we're trying to get out from under maintaining
> > the autoconf build system, I don't think it makes sense to open
> > ourselves up to having to do more work on it.  A policy of benign
> > neglect seems appropriate to me.
> 
> Understood, I was just pointing out there are more types of generated
> files in there.

The situation for configure is somewhat different, due to being maintained in
the repository, rather than just being included in the tarball...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Fix make build on MinGW

  2. Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.

  3. Remove distprep