Re: Change to config.pl processing in the msvc build environment

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Change to config.pl processing in the msvc build environment
Date: 2010-01-02 01:20:12
Message-ID: 20100102012012.GC8011@alvh.no-ip.org
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Magnus Hagander wrote:

> I therefor propose that we rename this file to "config.pl.default",
> and change the scripts to first load config.pl.default, and then load
> config.pl if it exists. config.pl then lives completely outside the
> source tree (should be in .cvsignore) and won't show up in any diffs
> or anything.

I've used similar tricks elsewhere and find them pretty useful. The
patch looks reasonably sane to someone 101% unfamiliar with our MSVC
stuff (except that I'd get rid of the parentheses in the "do foo unless
-f $file" lines).

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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