Re: What's the current theory about derived files in VPATH builds?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On mån, 2010-01-04 at 18:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I thought the current plan was that derived files should be generated in
>> the build tree (as indeed it seems to be doing) ... but there are
>> apparently parts of the Makefiles that are not in sync with this plan.
>> Has this just not been tested recently, or am I confused?

> This should in principle work.  My guess is an old make version being
> confused.

Well, I am testing with relatively old make and gcc too, but what it
looks like to me is that we need to add a "-I." switch in places where we
might need to #include a file out of the current build directory.
        regards, tom lane