Re: [PATCH] Pass COPT and PROFILE to CXXFLAGS as well

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-04T13:33:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 11:41:15AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Note that pgxs supports PG_CPPFLAGS for adding custom pieces to CPPFLAGS
> in a safe way.  Maybe we should add an equivalent for CFLAGS?  It's just
> that it hasn't been needed so far.

+1.  Wouldn't it make sense to also have PG_LDFLAGS?  In some stuff I
maintain, I have been abusing of PG_CPPFLAGS to pass some flags, which
is not really right.  We also have contrib/passwordcheck/Makefile
abuse of it to set -DUSE_CRACKLIB..
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Add PG_CFLAGS, PG_CXXFLAGS, and PG_LDFLAGS variables to PGXS