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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-02-17 16:11:02 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-02-17 16:11:02 -0500
commit156fbdfcef5d5dfae63bddeeaef2f1aac15f2151 (patch)
tree2ee94bd6974cba4a0e6bbe619455c8870e905619 /src
parent4bd0f83172561beb4ced58231ff96314e2a7a742 (diff)
Document usage of COPT environment variable for adjusting configure flags.
Also add to the existing rather half-baked description of PROFILE, which does exactly the same thing, but I think people use it differently. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16461.1487361849@sss.pgh.pa.us
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/Makefile.global.in5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/Makefile.global.in b/src/Makefile.global.in
index 6facb990936..71391ad2868 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.global.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -548,6 +548,11 @@ ifneq ($(CUSTOM_COPT),)
COPT= $(CUSTOM_COPT)
endif
+#
+# These variables are meant to be set in the environment of "make"
+# to add flags to whatever configure picked. Unlike the ones above,
+# they are documented.
+#
ifdef COPT
CFLAGS += $(COPT)
LDFLAGS += $(COPT)