Re: Simplify passing of configure arguments to pg_config

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Currently, configure puts the configure args into the makefiles and
> then have the makefiles pass them to the build of pg_config. That looks
> like an unnecessary redirection, and indeed that method was
> put in place when pg_config was a shell script. We can simplify that
> by having configure put the value into pg_config.h directly. This
> also makes the standard build system match how the MSVC build system
> already does it.

I dunno, is this really an improvement? It makes the handling of
VAL_CONFIGURE different from every other one of the values passed
into pg_config, and I don't see any countervailing addition of
some other regularity. I'm also a bit suspicious of the ad-hoc
escaping step ...

regards, tom lane