little bug in current CVS

Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:

make[2]: Entering directory /home/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/backend'
prereqdir=`cd parser/ && pwd` && \
cd ../../src/include/parser/ && rm -f parse.h && \
ln -s $prereqdir/parse.h .
ln: ./parser: File exists
make[2]: *** [../../src/include/parser/parse.h] Error 1

Hm. I bet your shell is failing to strip whitespace from the output of
pwd, so that the ln command ends up looking like

ln -s /home/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/parser /parse.h .

Can you check that theory by inserting an 'echo'?

regards, tom lane

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:

make[2]: Entering directory /home/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/backend'
prereqdir=`cd parser/ && pwd` && \
cd ../../src/include/parser/ && rm -f parse.h && \
ln -s $prereqdir/parse.h .
ln: ./parser: File exists
make[2]: *** [../../src/include/parser/parse.h] Error 1

Hm. I bet your shell is failing to strip whitespace from the output of
pwd, so that the ln command ends up looking like

ln -s /home/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/parser /parse.h .

Can you check that theory by inserting an 'echo'?

you're right. shell is BASH_VERSION='2.04.0(1)-release'
Makefile looks too complex:
$(top_builddir)/src/include/parser/parse.h: $(srcdir)/parser/parse.h
prereqdir=`cd $(dir $<) && pwd` && \
cd $(dir $@) && rm -f $(notdir $@) && \
$(LN_S) $$prereqdir/$(notdir $<) .

We're already in src/backend directory, why not use
ln -sf parser/parse.h .

regards, tom lane

Regards,
Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov writes:

after make clean, make failed with message:

make[2]: Entering directory /home/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/backend'
prereqdir=`cd parser/ && pwd` && \
cd ../../src/include/parser/ && rm -f parse.h && \
ln -s $prereqdir/parse.h .
ln: ./parser: File exists
make[2]: *** [../../src/include/parser/parse.h] Error 1

Try changing the second line to this

prereqdir=`CDPATH=: ; cd parser/ && pwd` && \

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