Re: Rethinking -L switch handling and construction of LDFLAGS

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-04-01 13:55:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm hesitant to do that because LDFLAGS is a name known to make's
>> default rules, and I don't want to bet that we're not relying on
>> those default rules anywhere.

> FWIW, postgres builds cleanly with -r -R in MAKELAGS.

That's pretty hard to believe.  Why would we bother to override every
default rule?  Even if it's true today, I would not accept it as project
policy that we must do so.  Perhaps more to the point, I would strongly
object to any design in which the standard Make variables don't mean
what the default rules expect them to mean.  That's just a recipe for
confusing people and creating hard-to-spot bugs.

            regards, tom lane