Re: [PATCH] Pass COPT and PROFILE to CXXFLAGS as well - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 21/11/2018 14:28, Christoph Berg wrote:
> The context here is that we want to use the *FLAGS from pg_config for
> compiling PG extension packages, but add additional *FLAGS from the
> extension build environment. Merging the pg_config CFLAGS with the
> environment CFLAGS seemed hard/weird/error-prone, so what we are doing
> now is https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql-common/blob/master/pg_buildext#L53-55
> 
>     if [ "${CFLAGS:-}" ]; then
>         export COPT="$CFLAGS"
>     fi

Note that pgxs supports PG_CPPFLAGS for adding custom pieces to CPPFLAGS
in a safe way.  Maybe we should add an equivalent for CFLAGS?  It's just
that it hasn't been needed so far.

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