In manage-ag.sgml our docs says:

[...]
    risk. To allow it, you must compile <productname>PostgreSQL</> with
    the C preprocessor macro <literal>ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS</>
    defined. One way to do this is to run the compilation step like
    this:
<programlisting>
gmake CPPFLAGS=-DALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS all
</programlisting>
[...]

I wonder if there's a reason to suggest this gmake call. After all it
makes gmake disregard the CPPFLAGS settings in the Makefile. This for
instance breaks ecpg compilation on Linux as -D_GNU_SOURCE as defined in the
Makefiles is needed for LONG_LONG_MIN.

I think we should either change the docs or start using "override" in
the Makefiles.

Michael

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Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:06:28 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
Docu question
Michael Meskes wrote:
> In manage-ag.sgml our docs says:
> 
> [...]
>     risk. To allow it, you must compile <productname>PostgreSQL</> with
>     the C preprocessor macro <literal>ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS</>
>     defined. One way to do this is to run the compilation step like
>     this:
> <programlisting>
> gmake CPPFLAGS=-DALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS all
> </programlisting>
> [...]
> 
> I wonder if there's a reason to suggest this gmake call. After all it
> makes gmake disregard the CPPFLAGS settings in the Makefile. This for
> instance breaks ecpg compilation on Linux as -D_GNU_SOURCE as defined in the
> Makefiles is needed for LONG_LONG_MIN.
> 
> I think we should either change the docs or start using "override" in
> the Makefiles.

Agreed. This is a problem.

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Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:31:02 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: Docu question