Re: vpath builds and verbose error messages

Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mar nov 22 16:22:15 -0300 2011:

> One thing that isn't so nice about all this is that it embeds the
> personal directory structure of the builder of the binary into the
> shipped product.  But gcc's cpp doesn't like redefining __FILE__, so the
> only way to get around that altogether would be to use something other
> than __FILE__ and define that for all builds.  Might not be worth it.

This is similar to what's suggested here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1591873/how-do-i-write-a-cpp-dir-macro-similar-to-file

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