Re: small proposal: pg_config record flag variables? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 20:49 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> Currently, pg_config will tell about the configure options that were
>> used, but it does not let you find out if any environment variables were
>> used to determine CC, CFLAGS, etc.

> If you put these flags onto the configure command line, then they are 
> recorded. E.g.:

> $ ./pg_config --configure
> '--prefix=/home/peter/devel/pg81/pg-install' 'CFLAGS=-W'

Sure, but people frequently do not do it that way.  The point of my
proposal was to make sure we could find out the flags actually used
after-the-fact, whether or not config.log is still around.
        regards, tom lane