Re: pg_regress breaks on msys

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_regress breaks on msys
Date: 2006-07-20 02:57:40
Message-ID: 44BEF124.5080403@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
>> We used to pass these values almost same way when we first did initdb in
>> C, and I don't recall any such problems. We had:
>>
>
>
>> override CPPFLAGS := -DPGBINDIR=\"$(*bindir*)\" -DPGDATADIR=\"$(*datadir*)\" -DFRONTEND -I$(*libpq_srcdir*) $(*CPPFLAGS*)
>>
>
> That seems a bit interesting. What are the stars for? I don't see
> anything about a syntax like that in my gmake documentation.
>
>

The stars are from my MUA not handling C&P from formatted text as well
as it should in text mode. It should have read:

override CPPFLAGS := -DPGBINDIR=\"$(bindir)\" -DPGDATADIR=\"$(datadir)\" -DFRONTEND -I$(libpq_srcdir) $(CPPFLAGS)

cheers

andrew

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