On 15.11.22 00:48, Andres Freund wrote:
> We effectively do that with autoconf as well, except that we don't mention
> that in pg_config --ldflags. Our linking rules include CFLAGS, see e.g.:
>
> %: %.o
> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
>
> postgres: $(OBJS)
> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(call expand_subsys,$^) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(export_dynamic) $(LIBS) -o $@
>
> ifdef PROGRAM
> $(PROGRAM): $(OBJS)
> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(PG_LIBS_INTERNAL) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(PG_LIBS) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
> endif
>
> # Rule for building a shared library from a single .o file
> %.so: %.o
> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_SL) -shared -o $@
>
>
> Should we try that fact in pg_configin the meson build as well?
It's up to the consumer of pg_config to apply CFLAGS and LDFLAGS as they
need. But pg_config and pkg-config etc. should report them separately.
