Re: testing dist tarballs

On 27.05.23 14:47, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Separately, it's somewhat confusing that we include errcodes.h etc in
>>> src/backend/utils, rather than its final location, in src/include/utils. It
>>> works, even without perl, because copying the file doesn't require perl, it's
>>> just generating it...
>>
>> The "copying" is actually a symlink, right?  I don't think we want to ship
>> symlinks in the tarball?
> 
> Fair point - still seems we should just create the files in the right
> directory instead of doing it in the wrong place and then creating symlinks to
> make them accessible...

Right.  I think the reason this was set up this way is that with make it 
is generally dubious to create target files outside of the current 
directory.