Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> How is "prod" getting into that command line? I suspect it's coming
>> from an environment variable like PROFILE or CFLAGS ...
> Is there a case for making Makefile/shell variables and defines we use
> have less generic names?
Having configure/make depend on CC, CFLAGS, etc is standard behavior;
renaming those would increase the surprise factor, not reduce it.
PROFILE is maybe a borderline case, since I'm not sure how many packages
use it the way we do. But I'd be at least as inclined to blame Dave's
environment for using a generic variable name as blame our makefiles.
regards, tom lane