Re: pgsql: Remove USE_VPATH make variable from PGXS

On 1/17/15 11:21 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Him
>
> On 2014-12-04 16:35:27 +0000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Remove USE_VPATH make variable from PGXS
>>
>> The user can just set VPATH directly.  There is no need to invent
>> another variable.
>
> I'm at a bit of loss why this was committed to 9.4 after rc1. This very
> much can (and has) broken external software.

What did it break?

AFAICT, this just reverted an unnecessary "feature" (USE_VPATH) that
shadowed an existing and perfectly working feature (using VPATH directly).

I agree the timing was unfortunate.