Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"

Le mardi 14 mai 2013 10:17:13, Marti Raudsepp a écrit :
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 04:12 +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> >> It's caused by this common pattern in extension makefiles:
> >> DATA = $(wildcard sql/*--*.sql) sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql
> >
> > What is the point of this?  Why have the wildcard and then the
> > non-wildcard term?
>
> Because the non-wildcard file is built by the same Makefile (it's
> copied from the sql/$(EXTENSION).sql file). If it wasn't there, a
> "make install" from a clean checkout would miss this file.
>
> all: sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql
>
> sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql: sql/$(EXTENSION).sql
>         cp $< $@
>
> > I think using wildcard is bad style and you should fix it.
>
> Perhaps, but fixing the extensions is not a solution at this point. A
> large number of extensions use this exact code (it comes from David
> Wheeler's template AFAIK). We might stand a chance in fixing the
> public extensions on PGXN, but this would presumably still break
> non-public extensions that people have written.

My understanding is that the offending commit reveals possible bad written
instruction in some Makefile. What's wrong ?
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