Re: Call for port reports

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > > BUT: The default CFLAGS are set by configure to -O2, although the template
> > > wants -O.  I manually modified the CFLAGS to -O after configure.
> >
> > template/alpha has:
> >
> >     case $host_cpu in
> >       alpha*)   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -O";;  # alpha has problems with -O2
> >     esac
> >
> > Is this not getting invoked?
> 
> After further consideration, I think that the recent patch series that
> tried to centralize the CFLAGS handling in configure should be reverted to
> configure.in revision 1.293.  Otherwise, it's much to complicated to
> handle all the special cases.  There is, after all, a reason we have been
> forced to keep it this way all these years.

Remember the old code had CFLAGS="" in lots of platforms, meaning they
got no optimization.

It seems right now Alpha is our only problem, and it is really just a
message problem because the later flags override the earlier ones.  Why
can't get just remove -O2 from the alpha CFLAGS line via makefile magic?
Frankly, we could just do CFLAGS="-O" and be done with it because we
would not be bringing in the -O2, but I would rather keep it clean and
remove just -O2.

I don't think going backwards is a good solution because it spreads the
problem down to the templates again.

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