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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-committers@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Record full paths of programs sought by "configure".
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:36:38 -0400
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 08/07/2017 03:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm confused.  AFAIK, that commit did not change which "prove" would
>> be used --- at least not unless you change PATH between configure and
>> make.  It only changed how specifically that program would be named in
>> Makefile.global.  Please clarify how that broke anything.

> That's exactly what we do. See
> <https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/blob/master/run_build.pl; at
> line 1649.

My goodness, that's ugly.  Is it really better than injecting
"PROVE=prove"?  (I'd suggest saying that to configure, not make,
so that the configure log bears some resemblance to what you
want done.)

			regards, tom lane


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