Re: Support building in a different directory on Solaris

Bruce Momjian writes:

> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
>
>     http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
>
> I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

No way.  We should not run prep_buildtree on top of the source tree.
There were a number of better solutions proposed.

> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >
> > > Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
> > >
> > >     http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
> > >
> > > I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.
> >
> > Thanks.  There was some discussion of a slightly different patch to
> > address this by removing the requirement for test -ef.  I've appended
> > a patch for that; it has not been tested as well as my previous patch.
> > I'm agnostic as to which one is used.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > Index: configure.in
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v
> > retrieving revision 1.136
> > diff -u -r1.136 configure.in
> > --- configure.in    2001/09/06 03:23:38    1.136
> > +++ configure.in    2001/09/07 04:58:47
> > @@ -1216,25 +1216,18 @@
> >    AC_CHECK_PROGS(SGMLSPL, sgmlspl)
> >  fi
> >
> > -# check whether 'test -ef' works
> > -if (test "$srcdir" -ef "$srcdir") >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > -  test_ef_works=yes
> > -else
> > -  test_ef_works=no
> > -fi
> > -
> >  abs_top_srcdir=
> >  AC_SUBST(abs_top_srcdir)
> >
> > -if test "$test_ef_works" = yes ; then
> >  # prepare build tree if outside source tree
> > -  if test "$srcdir" -ef . ; then : ; else
> > -    abs_top_srcdir=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
> > -    echo $ac_n "preparing build tree... $ac_c" 1>&6
> > -    /bin/sh "$srcdir/config/prep_buildtree" "$abs_top_srcdir" "." \
> > -      || AC_MSG_ERROR(failed)
> > -    AC_MSG_RESULT(done)
> > -  fi
> > +if test "`cd $srcdir && /bin/pwd`" = "`/bin/pwd`"; then
> > +  :
> > +else
> > +  abs_top_srcdir=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
> > +  echo $ac_n "preparing build tree... $ac_c" 1>&6
> > +  /bin/sh "$srcdir/config/prep_buildtree" "$abs_top_srcdir" "." \
> > +    || AC_MSG_ERROR(failed)
> > +  AC_MSG_RESULT(done)
> >  fi
> >
> >  AC_OUTPUT(
> > Index: prep_buildtree
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/config/prep_buildtree,v
> > retrieving revision 1.3
> > diff -u -r1.3 prep_buildtree
> > --- prep_buildtree    2001/03/03 15:53:41    1.3
> > +++ prep_buildtree    2001/09/07 04:59:01
> > @@ -29,10 +29,12 @@
> >      fi
> >  done
> >
> > -for item in `find "$sourcetree" -name Makefile -o -name GNUmakefile`; do
> > +for item in `find "$sourcetree" -name Makefile -print -o -name GNUmakefile -print`; do
> >      subdir=`expr "$item" : "$sourcetree\(.*\)"`
> >      if test ! -f "${item}.in"; then
> > -        ln -fs "$item" "$buildtree/$subdir" || exit 1
> > +        if cmp "$item" "$buildtree/subdir" >/dev/null 2>&1; then : ; else
> > +            ln -fs "$item" "$buildtree/$subdir" || exit 1
> > +        fi
> >      fi
> >  done
> >
> >
>
>

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter