Re: small proposal: pg_config record flag variables?

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:
>
> pg_config --cc
> pg_config --cppflags
> pg_config --cflags
> pg_config --cflags_sl
> pg_config --ldflags
> pg_config --ldflags_sl
> pg_config --libs
>
>Comments? Are these option names okay, or do they need to be more
>verbose? Any other settings worth recording?
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I would be tempted to have one flag called, say, --build-env which has
all the interesting settings from the build environment in one hit.

cheers

andrew