On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 18:50, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun dic 27 13:54:56 -0300 2010:
>>> [ lightbulb ] ... although we could improve that quite a bit if we
>>> processed each .h file separately instead of insisting on smashing
>>> everything into one compilation. Let me go try that.
>
>> FWIW I have this patch lingering about that I wrote months ago, to check
>> for header problems (not C++ stuff, just things like forgetting to
>> include some necessary header in some other header). Since it needs a
>> lot of polish (needs to ignore certain headers, and avoid leave
>> lingering files around), I didn't commit it; and I haven't updated it to
>> the new Make recursive stuff, either.
>
> src/tools/pginclude/ already contains several scripts for this sort of
> thing. Bruce runs them by hand occasionally, although I just found out
> that he's evidently not run the does-each-header-compile-standalone
> test in awhile. It would probably pay to automate these.
Could this at some point be platform dependent? If so, could it be run
on the buildfarm?
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