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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
commit447591c70c4aaef950f8cee6db188e4c35bc551f (patch)
tree779b03dfb1ff34ea888f982a2d10272cff0bcfed /src
parentd993171a7aa212db479ec53b47881b4e677d0b5c (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 6930f2f609d..340e7441f45 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.global.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ 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)