From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: Three animals fail test-decoding-check on REL_10_STABLE
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Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 1/12/19 2:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wonder if it's practical to scrape DLSUFFIX out of src/Makefile.port
>> instead of listing all the possibilities here.

> I'd rather get make to tell us directly, something like:
>     .PHONY: show_dl_suffix
>     show_dl_suffix:
>         @echo $(DLSUFFIX)

No objection here, but of course you'd have to back-patch that into
all active branches.

(The Darwin case is slightly exciting, but it looks like you'd get
the right answer as long as Makefile.shlib doesn't get involved.)

			regards, tom lane