Re: [HACKERS] Re: Configure problem, redux (was Re: TCL installation troubles)

>    The problem here is that you are duplicating the normal configure
>    processing in every Makefile that needs it.  This will get old very
>    fast, and hard to maintain.  configure does this already, and
>    automatically, in one place.  Yes, you must re-run configure, and you do
>    loose your changes, but pulling all the stuff into every Makefile seems
>    worse.
> 
> We are only doing this for the *.sql files because they don't have
> within them some ability to do argument expansion.  This is definitely
> not good for all the Makefiles or source code, both of which can get
> what they need in a single place (Makefile.global or config.h).  I am
> not advocating changing that.  In fact, I am agreeing with the idea of
> becoming more centralized for those parts of the code that can handle
> it, i.e., Makefiles and C source.

Oh.  :-)

I will go back to looking the other way.


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