Re: small proposal: pg_config record flag variables?

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:49 -0400, 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:

On a related topic, why is pg_config not part of the RPM builds?
(Yes, I know the values are hard wired in the RPM).

There doesn't appear to be a written explanation of why this is...

Or am I missing something more obvious?

Best Regards, Simon Riggs