Re: Building PostgreSQL in external directory is broken?

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 3:12 PM Aleksander Alekseev
<aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
> > That's the short version. The longer version² does claim it's supported:
>
> You are right, I missed this. Thanks!
>
> Regarding these errors:
>
> > ar: cryptohash.o: No such file or directory
> > ar: hmac.o: No such file or directory
> > ...
>
> This has something to do with the particular choice of the ./configure
> flags on a given platform. If I omit:
>
> > --disable-debug --disable-cassert --enable-tap-tests
>
> I get completely different errors:
>
> > clang: error: no such file or directory: 'replication/backup_manifest.o'
> > clang: error: no such file or directory: 'replication/basebackup.o'
>
> Apparently this should be checked carefully with different configure
> flags combinations if we are going to continue maintaining this.

Please, check Alvaro's advise to run "git clean -dfx".  Helped to me.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov