On 15.11.22 00:48, Andres Freund wrote:
We effectively do that with autoconf as well, except that we don't mention that in pg_config --ldflags. Our linking rules include CFLAGS, see e.g.:%: %.o $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X) postgres: $(OBJS) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(call expand_subsys,$^) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(export_dynamic) $(LIBS) -o $@ ifdef PROGRAM $(PROGRAM): $(OBJS) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(PG_LIBS_INTERNAL) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_EX) $(PG_LIBS) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X) endif # Rule for building a shared library from a single .o file %.so: %.o $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_SL) -shared -o $@ Should we try that fact in pg_configin the meson build as well?
It's up to the consumer of pg_config to apply CFLAGS and LDFLAGS as they need. But pg_config and pkg-config etc. should report them separately.
