Dear Tom,
>> That would break existing Makefiles that use the "please take the first
>> pg_config in the path" feature, which rather make sense (it just means
>> that you want the extension for your current postgresql).
>
> How would it break them? The default definition is still PG_CONFIG =
> pg_config, this just moves where that definition appears.
I think that I was answering to:
...
Tom> I'm not sure though how to get this setting to
Tom> override the one in Makefile.global ...
Tom> or should we just remove that one?
With the assumption that the above "that one" refered to the "PG_CONFIG"
macro definition in "Makefile.global". As existing extension makefiles do
not defined PG_CONFIG, relying on one would break them wrt future
releases? That's why I suggested to replace the "Makefile.global"
definition by a conditional one.
But it is also entirely possible that I did not fully understand your
sentence:-)
--
Fabien.