Re: Installation of regress.so?

On 5/20/21 7:58 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 09:30:37AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'd be okay with it being some sort of non-default option.
> Okay.  It would be possible to control that with an environment
> variable.  However I am wondering if it would not be more user-friendly
> for automated environments if we had a configure switch to control
> when things related to the tests are installed or not.  Say a
> --with-test-install?


That seems a bit tortured. Why should you have to make the decision at
configure time? ISTM all you need is an extra make target that will
install it for you, or a make variable that controls it in the existing
install target.


e.g. make INSTALL_REGRESS_LIB=1 install


cheers


andrew


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