| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: make --enable-depend the default |
| Date: | 2013-08-06 00:23:42 |
| Message-ID: | CAB7nPqTSNRQr3bbFJ5xms+mfPpxQR6JJWL4QLTbqPwSNfyR8Nw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> People, including me, every now and then forget to pass --enable-depend
> >> to configure (when not using my own environment). Which then leads to
> >> strange errors that cost time to track down...
> >
> > One argument against that is that we only support dependency tracking
> > with GCC, so we would have to either fail configure or use a different
> > default depending on the compiler.
> >
> > It's also unreasonable to assume, I think, that just turning on
> > --enable-depend by default will eliminate forgot-a-configure-option
> > mistakes. In most cases, you want to turn on most or all --enable-* and
> > --with-* options to get good build and test coverage.
>
> Yeah, I have alias dev-configure='./configure
> --appropriate-stuff-for-this-machine' on every system where I work on
> PG. I imagine others do something similar.
>
Yes, this is for sure, even using environment variables dedicated to that
in multiple machines makes sense.
--
Michael