David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mar 31, 2006, at 16:01, Tom Lane wrote: >> It seems rather pointless to document two instances of what is in fact >> a generic autoconf-script behavior ...
> I'm sorry to be such a moron about this, but what exactly is that > behavior? That you can specify an environment variable for whatever * > is in --with-*? The generic autoconf documentation says You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here is an example: ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix This isn't super helpful, of course, since it doesn't say exactly which variables any particular autoconf script responds to. But pretty much all of the programs that a configure script searches for are reflected as variables. A quick grep through our configure script for the phrase "Let the user override" finds a couple dozen hits, and that's just for programs, never mind non-program variables. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match