[csw-maintainers] Building postgresql-8.4.1

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
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> References:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPPFLAGS

ooo, i learned something today.

CFLAGS is officially for compiling *and linking* C code.
I thought it was only for compiling. so adding -L/-R and other arcane
stuff to CFLAGS is not technically improper.

(Reason I mention this is that I usually add those to LDFLAGS.. but
there was ONE program, that would not compile nicely unless I added
something to CFLAGS when I thought I could only put it in LDFLAGS.
The program was still wrong for not respecting LDFLAGS :-} but at
least i feel better about the workaround now ;-)

Although in retrospect, if CFLAGS is for linking also, I wonder why
GNUheads decided to start using CCLDFLAGS recently? Grrr...