Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Like "--with-perl"? The reason that got in there was not to deal with
>> weird compiler flags, it was to deal with the standard Perl installation
>> on RHL 8.0.
> But for that purpose it was sufficient to leave it in linux.h.
But Stephan is right: putting it in the port header creates a serious
risk that the effective compilation environment will be different from
what configure was probing. It's sheer luck that we've not seen any
worse problems than we have.
regards, tom lane
