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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-02-17 16:11:02 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-02-17 16:11:02 -0500
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Document usage of COPT environment variable for adjusting configure flags.
Also add to the existing rather half-baked description of PROFILE, which does exactly the same thing, but I think people use it differently. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16461.1487361849@sss.pgh.pa.us
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-rw-r--r--src/Makefile.global.in5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/Makefile.global.in b/src/Makefile.global.in
index e1e2c0adaf2..62fc921b801 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.global.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -582,6 +582,11 @@ ifneq ($(CUSTOM_COPT),)
COPT= $(CUSTOM_COPT)
endif
+#
+# These variables are meant to be set in the environment of "make"
+# to add flags to whatever configure picked. Unlike the ones above,
+# they are documented.
+#
ifdef COPT
CFLAGS += $(COPT)
LDFLAGS += $(COPT)