On tis, 2010-05-04 at 10:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Graham wrote:
> >> Build with VPATH works well upto installing
> >> postgresql-9.0beta1/src/backend/catalog/postgres.bki
> >> which is in the source tree not the object tree
>
> > Strange. I always use VPATH builds and I've never seen this problem. I
> > only use CVS checkouts though. Maybe something is broken in the
> > tarball. I'll have a look this afternoon is no one beats me to it.
>
> I don't think anyone has tried a VPATH build starting from a
> distribution tarball. The OP is correct that things are going to fall
> over in that case. My thought about fixing it was that postgres.bki
> and related files ought to be forced to be built/used in $(srcdir),
> but I didn't get further than that. Peter, what do you think?
We have a prebaked solution for this in the docs build. The attached
patch appears to fix it.