Re: small proposal: pg_config record flag variables?

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: small proposal: pg_config record flag variables?
Date: 2005-08-10 09:02:32
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On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Currently, pg_config will tell about the configure options that were
> used, but it does not let you find out if any environment variables were
> used to determine CC, CFLAGS, etc. More than once I've found myself
> wanting to verify that information about an installation. So I'm
> considering adding options to pg_config to record the more interesting
> Makefile variables:

On a related topic, why is pg_config not part of the RPM builds?
(Yes, I know the values are hard wired in the RPM).

There doesn't appear to be a written explanation of why this is...

Or am I missing something more obvious?

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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