Re: [HACKERS] include/port directory?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-11-10T16:47:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu> writes:
> 	     @if [ ! -d $(HEADERDIR)/port/$(PORTNAME) ]; \
> 		     then mkdir $(HEADERDIR)/port/$(PORTNAME); fi

> However, nothing ever seems to be put into this directory and as far
> as I can tell these are the only Makefile lines that reference this
> directory in any way.

Some of the ports put stuff into that directory, some don't.
(HPUX does, as you would've noticed if you looked about seven lines
above this line.)

> What is the point if creating it in the first place?  Should stuff be
> put in there or should the directory disappear?

I'd say leave it alone.  Even if we don't have a lot of use for it
at the moment, what's it hurt?

			regards, tom lane