Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com> writes:
> On the topic of make, have you all read "Recursive Make Considered
> Harmful" at http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html
I read it, I don't believe a word of it. The whole thing is founded on
a bogus example, to which is added specious reasoning and an assumption
that everyone wants to use GCC as compiler plus a nonstandardly-patched
version of GNU make. This is not the real world.
The Postgres build setup is certainly far from ideal, but IMHO the only
thing *really* wrong with it is that we're not constructing accurate
dependency lists by default. I believe Peter E. is planning to
fix that...
regards, tom lane