Docu question

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Docu question
Date: 2003-12-26 20:06:28
Message-ID: 20031226200628.GA4269@1
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In manage-ag.sgml our docs says:

[...]
risk. To allow it, you must compile <productname>PostgreSQL</> with
the C preprocessor macro <literal>ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS</>
defined. One way to do this is to run the compilation step like
this:
<programlisting>
gmake CPPFLAGS=-DALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS all
</programlisting>
[...]

I wonder if there's a reason to suggest this gmake call. After all it
makes gmake disregard the CPPFLAGS settings in the Makefile. This for
instance breaks ecpg compilation on Linux as -D_GNU_SOURCE as defined in the
Makefiles is needed for LONG_LONG_MIN.

I think we should either change the docs or start using "override" in
the Makefiles.

Michael

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