Re: pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq (Makefile)

Tom Lane writes:

> Anyway, it seems like "override" does not work the way Peter is
> expecting it to, at least not in my copy of gmake which I believe is
> up-to-date.  I seem to recall someone else complaining of this same
> breakage a day or two back, as well.
>
> Is this a make bug, or a make documentation bug, or what?

I'm convinced it's one of the two, but I haven't heard back from
bug-make@gnu.org, yet.  In any case, the VPATH/CPPFLAGS patch that's
coming up will stick an "override" in front of every C(PP)?FLAGS variable,
which is the right thing to do anyway.

(One might wonder why bother about this:  it's because users might try to
run, e.g., "make all CFLAGS=-O99 -mfoo" etc., so you have to forcibly hold
on to the necessary CFLAGS as well.  Yeah, I know, COPT -- but who's ever
heard of that?)

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