Re: dependencies for generated header files

[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 21:21:35 Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that our dependencies for generated header files (gram.h,
> fmgroids.h, probes.h) are not as good as they could be.  What we do
> right now is make src/backend/Makefile rebuild these before recursing
> through its subdirectories.  This works OK for a top-level make, but
> if you run make further down in the tree (like under
> src/backend/commands) it won't necessarily rebuild everything that it
> should.
>
> The attached patch moves some of this logic from src/backend/Makefile
> to src/Makefile.global.in.

Have you tried putting them in src/backend/common.mk?  That might be a better 
place.

Also, modulo that change, do you think it would be OK to apply this patch now 
while the other patch about header generation is under discussion?  Or would 
that create a complete merge disaster if we ended up going with some variant 
of the header generation patch?