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.
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Tom Lane 2018-08-09 15:21:09 -04:00
parent 8c92638c00
commit a015ae54a7

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@ -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>