Thread: reading build config.log --> possible bug?

Looking to see where my new data directory is in recently built 9.1 I
happened upon what could potentially be a bug in configure:

Just after the line which begins "configure_args=" (line 11068 for me,
99% of buffer) I find:

datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'

I'm troubled that datadir may be getting set too early since that's the
first mention of either variable in config.log? I don't see 'datadir'
anywhere else in the file but that's not abnormal.

Paranoid but maybe they _are_ after me,

rjs

Rob Sargentg <robjsargent@gmail.com> writes:
> Looking to see where my new data directory is in recently built 9.1 I
> happened upon what could potentially be a bug in configure:

> Just after the line which begins "configure_args=" (line 11068 for me,
> 99% of buffer) I find:

> datadir='${datarootdir}'
> datarootdir='${prefix}/share'

> I'm troubled that datadir may be getting set too early since that's the
> first mention of either variable in config.log? I don't see 'datadir'
> anywhere else in the file but that's not abnormal.

I think you're reading the alphabetized dump of variables' final values,
no?

            regards, tom lane

On 11/27/2011 09:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargentg<robjsargent@gmail.com>  writes:
>> Looking to see where my new data directory is in recently built 9.1 I
>> happened upon what could potentially be a bug in configure:
>> Just after the line which begins "configure_args=" (line 11068 for me,
>> 99% of buffer) I find:
>> datadir='${datarootdir}'
>> datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
>> I'm troubled that datadir may be getting set too early since that's the
>> first mention of either variable in config.log? I don't see 'datadir'
>> anywhere else in the file but that's not abnormal.
> I think you're reading the alphabetized dump of variables' final values,
> no?
>
>             regards, tom lane
Ah, yes... Note to self: Step back, see the larger picture...