On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Alvaro
Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>
>> *shrug* You don't have to accept the patch, but I'm unclear as to how
>> make from a subdirectory will ever work reliably without something
>> like this. The problem occurs when .c files have dependencies on
>> files that are generated by a Makefile in some other subdirectory. So
>> it's not random stuff: it's the stuff where that particular thing
>> happens.
>
> But what use would have to build that particular .o file, and not the
> whole postgres binary?
I don't think that I can spell it out any more clearly than I did in
the paragraph immediately preceding the one you have quoted here.
...Robert