Re: PROVE_FLAGS

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PROVE_FLAGS
Date: 2017-05-03 19:32:17
Message-ID: dbf3ebde-b25d-b9ac-9b22-94aaa2b2678c@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 05/03/2017 03:21 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-05-03 15:14:27 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Can someone please explain to me why we have this in Makefile.global.in?
>> (from commit e9c81b60 )
>>
>>
>> PROVE_FLAGS =
>>
>>
>> ISTM it's unnecessary, and prevents us from using the same named value
>> in the environment. I want to be able to use the environment in
>> vcregress.pl, and I'd like the Make files to work the same way.
> Wouldn't it be better to append the environment to the flags here,
> that'd allow us to modify flags from both places?
>

The Makefile already has:

$(PROVE) $(PG_PROVE_FLAGS) $(PROVE_FLAGS) ...

It doesn't set PROVE_FLAGS anywhere.

cheers

andrew

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