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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-08-09 15:21:09 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-08-09 15:21:16 -0400
commita015ae54a7fd5d613470033d624879804f629fae (patch)
tree162a4c249268583dacf16c1773cf56b4d68ed319
parent8c92638c008b074df9cf3087816e3aa8c01177a5 (diff)
Document need to clear MAKELEVEL when invoking PG build from a makefile.
Since commit 3b8f6e75f, failure to do this would lead to submake-generated-headers not doing anything, so that references to generated or symlinked headers would fail. Previous to that, the omission only led to temp-install not doing anything, which apparently affects many fewer people (doesn't anybody use "make check" in their build rules??). Hence, backpatch to v11 but not further. Per complaints from Christoph Berg, Jakob Egger, and others.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index fa90e9104ae..a88cd21f453 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1599,12 +1599,13 @@ su - postgres
<title>Build</title>
<para>
- To start the build, type:
+ To start the build, type either of:
<screen>
<userinput>make</userinput>
+<userinput>make all</userinput>
</screen>
- (Remember to use <acronym>GNU</acronym> <application>make</application>.) The build
- will take a few minutes depending on your
+ (Remember to use <acronym>GNU</acronym> <application>make</application>.)
+ The build will take a few minutes depending on your
hardware. The last line displayed should be:
<screen>
All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.
@@ -1623,6 +1624,18 @@ All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.
PostgreSQL, contrib, and documentation successfully made. Ready to install.
</screen>
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you want to invoke the build from another makefile rather than
+ manually, you must unset <varname>MAKELEVEL</varname> or set it to zero,
+ for instance like this:
+<programlisting>
+build-postgresql:
+ $(MAKE) -C postgresql MAKELEVEL=0 all
+</programlisting>
+ Failure to do that can lead to strange error messages, typically about
+ missing header files.
+ </para>
</step>
<step>