Re: [HACKERS] PROVE_FLAGS

On 05/04/2017 12:50 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> Can someone please explain to me why we have this in Makefile.global.in?
>>> (from commit e9c81b60 )
>>>     PROVE_FLAGS =
>> Before that commit it was like
>>
>>     PROVE_FLAGS = --verbose
> right.
>
>> which had some value.  I agree that now we'd be better off to not
>> set it at all, especially since the convention now appears to be that
>> automatically-supplied prove options should be set in PG_PROVE_FLAGS.
> Good point.
>
>> I'd suggest that the comment just above be replaced by something like
>>
>> # User-supplied prove flags can be provided in PROVE_FLAGS.
> Works for me.
>


Does anyone object to me backpatching this? It seems to me kinda crazy
to have --verbose hardcoded on the back branches and not on the dev branch.

cheers

andrew

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