Re: Remove distprep

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2024-06-16T19:59:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2024-Jun-16, Noah Misch wrote:

> These broke the
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/installation-platform-notes.html#INSTALLATION-NOTES-MINGW
> build, where LN_S='cp -pR'.  On other platforms, "make LN_S='cp -pR'"
> reproduces this.  Reverting the above lines fixes things.  The buildfarm has
> no coverage for that build scenario (fairywren uses Meson).

I agree we should revert this change.  I had commented on this:
https://postgr.es/m/202404051810.et6ufj5snhmt@alvherre.pgsql

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Commits

  1. Fix make build on MinGW

  2. Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.

  3. Remove distprep