Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Yep. What's happening is that "make -j" starts building libpq and
> walreceiver.so simultaneously, because of the above line in the
> Makefile. We actually have the same problem in src/bin/*/Makefile, but
> we don't notice it there because src/interfaces is listed before src/bin
> in src/Makefile, so when you do "make -j" at the top-level, libpq is
> built first.
I'm actually fairly uncomfortable with the notion that something buried
deep within the src/backend tree is going to reach over and cause libpq
to get built. Maybe the real answer is that you put walreceiver in the
wrong place, and it ought to be under src/bin/.
regards, tom lane