Re: pg_regress breaks on msys

Tom Lane wrote:
>> We used to pass these values almost same way when we first did initdb in 
>> C, and I don't recall any such problems. We had:
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>> override CPPFLAGS := -DPGBINDIR=\"$(*bindir*)\" -DPGDATADIR=\"$(*datadir*)\" -DFRONTEND -I$(*libpq_srcdir*)
$(*CPPFLAGS*)
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> That seems a bit interesting.  What are the stars for?  I don't see
> anything about a syntax like that in my gmake documentation.
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The stars are from my MUA not handling C&P from formatted text as well 
as it should in text mode. It should have read:

override CPPFLAGS := -DPGBINDIR=\"$(bindir)\" -DPGDATADIR=\"$(datadir)\" -DFRONTEND -I$(libpq_srcdir) $(CPPFLAGS)


cheers

andrew