From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | brook(at)trillium(dot)NMSU(dot)Edu (Brook Milligan) |
Cc: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Configure problem, redux (was Re: TCL installation troubles) |
Date: | 1998-10-27 21:33:39 |
Message-ID: | 199810272133.QAA01567@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> The problem here is that you are duplicating the normal configure
> processing in every Makefile that needs it. This will get old very
> fast, and hard to maintain. configure does this already, and
> automatically, in one place. Yes, you must re-run configure, and you do
> loose your changes, but pulling all the stuff into every Makefile seems
> worse.
>
> We are only doing this for the *.sql files because they don't have
> within them some ability to do argument expansion. This is definitely
> not good for all the Makefiles or source code, both of which can get
> what they need in a single place (Makefile.global or config.h). I am
> not advocating changing that. In fact, I am agreeing with the idea of
> becoming more centralized for those parts of the code that can handle
> it, i.e., Makefiles and C source.
Oh. :-)
I will go back to looking the other way.
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