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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:23:23 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Subject: Re: make -C libpq check fails obscurely if tap tests are disabled
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On 2022-Jul-21, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> On 2022-07-21 Th 04:53, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Here's a different take.  Just assign the variable separately.
> 
> Nice, I didn't know you could do that.

It's not very common -- we do have some target-specific variable
assignments, but none of them use 'export'.  I saw somewhere that this
works from Make 3.77 onwards, and we require 3.80, so it should be okay.
The buildfarm will tell us ...

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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