Re: Support building in a different directory on Solaris

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
>
>     http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
>
> I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

Thanks.  There was some discussion of a slightly different patch to
address this by removing the requirement for test -ef.  I've appended
a patch for that; it has not been tested as well as my previous patch.
I'm agnostic as to which one is used.

Ian

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.136
diff -u -r1.136 configure.in
--- configure.in    2001/09/06 03:23:38    1.136
+++ configure.in    2001/09/07 04:58:47
@@ -1216,25 +1216,18 @@
   AC_CHECK_PROGS(SGMLSPL, sgmlspl)
 fi

-# check whether 'test -ef' works
-if (test "$srcdir" -ef "$srcdir") >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-  test_ef_works=yes
-else
-  test_ef_works=no
-fi
-
 abs_top_srcdir=
 AC_SUBST(abs_top_srcdir)

-if test "$test_ef_works" = yes ; then
 # prepare build tree if outside source tree
-  if test "$srcdir" -ef . ; then : ; else
-    abs_top_srcdir=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
-    echo $ac_n "preparing build tree... $ac_c" 1>&6
-    /bin/sh "$srcdir/config/prep_buildtree" "$abs_top_srcdir" "." \
-      || AC_MSG_ERROR(failed)
-    AC_MSG_RESULT(done)
-  fi
+if test "`cd $srcdir && /bin/pwd`" = "`/bin/pwd`"; then
+  :
+else
+  abs_top_srcdir=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
+  echo $ac_n "preparing build tree... $ac_c" 1>&6
+  /bin/sh "$srcdir/config/prep_buildtree" "$abs_top_srcdir" "." \
+    || AC_MSG_ERROR(failed)
+  AC_MSG_RESULT(done)
 fi

 AC_OUTPUT(
Index: prep_buildtree
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/config/prep_buildtree,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 prep_buildtree
--- prep_buildtree    2001/03/03 15:53:41    1.3
+++ prep_buildtree    2001/09/07 04:59:01
@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@
     fi
 done

-for item in `find "$sourcetree" -name Makefile -o -name GNUmakefile`; do
+for item in `find "$sourcetree" -name Makefile -print -o -name GNUmakefile -print`; do
     subdir=`expr "$item" : "$sourcetree\(.*\)"`
     if test ! -f "${item}.in"; then
-        ln -fs "$item" "$buildtree/$subdir" || exit 1
+        if cmp "$item" "$buildtree/subdir" >/dev/null 2>&1; then : ; else
+            ln -fs "$item" "$buildtree/$subdir" || exit 1
+        fi
     fi
 done