Re: testing dist tarballs

On 24.05.23 23:24, Andres Freund wrote:
> First thing I noticed that 'make dist' doesn't work in a vpath, failing in a
> somewhat obscure way (likely because in a vpath build the the copy from the
> source dir doesn't include GNUMakefile). Do we expect it to work?

I don't think so.

> Separately, it's somewhat confusing that we include errcodes.h etc in
> src/backend/utils, rather than its final location, in src/include/utils. It
> works, even without perl, because copying the file doesn't require perl, it's
> just generating it...

The "copying" is actually a symlink, right?  I don't think we want to 
ship symlinks in the tarball?