Re: New "-b slim" option in 2019b zic: should we turn that on?

On 10/5/19 10:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 10/5/19 6:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I had contemplated injecting the -b switch via
>>> -ZIC_OPTIONS =
>>> +ZIC_OPTIONS = -b slim
>> I don't think that's going to work very well with a buildfarm member,
>> where there's no convenient way to set it.
> Can't you set that from build_env?
>
>

No, build_env sets the environment, not makefile variables, and
configure doesn't fill in ZIC_OPTIONS, unlike what it does with ZIC.

Anyway, it turns out that avoiding the issue I was having here just
postpones the problem for a few seconds, so while we should probably do
something here it's not urgent from my POV.

cheers

andrew

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