On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mar may 01 15:30:25 -0400 2012:
>>> Instead, I thought this could easily be fixed by writing this:
>>>
>>> %_srv.o: %.c %.o
>>> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(subst -DFRONTEND,, $(CPPFLAGS)) -c $< -o $@
>>>
>>> A bit hacky, but should get quite robust results.
>
>> So basically to build the _srv.o file you first need to build the .o?
>> Since both files need to be built anyway, I don't think this is a
>> problem.
>
> Are there, or might there be in the future, any "port" files that only
> exist in server flavor and not client-side flavor? It doesn't seem
> terribly unlikely to me. This is a cute hack but it assumes that
> everything in that directory can and should be built both ways.
Isn't that what backend/port/* is for?
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