Re: enabling FOO=bar arguments to vcregress.pl

On 11/1/21 21:23, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 11:33:21AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> As I mentioned recently at
>> <https://postgr.es/m/5d72f199-dc11-89a8-29d1-f20f9687c86f@dunslane.net>, 
>> I want to get USE_MODULE_DB working for vcregress.pl. I started out
>> writing code to strip this from the command line or get it from the
>> environment, but then it struck me that if would be better to implement
>> a general Makefile-like mechanism for handling FOO=bar type arguments on
>> the command line, along the lines of the attached.
> I am not sure to understand how that will that work with USE_MODULE_DB
> which sets up the database names used by the regression tests. Each
> target's module has its own needs in terms of settings that can be
> used, meaning that you would still need some boilerplate to do the
> mapping between a variable and its command argument?

I think you misunderstood the purpose of my email. It wasn't meant to
be  complete patch.

But here's an untested patch that should do almost all of what I want
for USE_MODULE_DB.

cheers

andrew

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