Re: pgsql: Remove USE_VPATH make variable from PGXS - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On 2015-01-17 11:47:32 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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?

bdr (and/or udr). It automagically uses VPATH builds to build against
postgres.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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