Re: PATCH: Allow distdir to be overridden on make command line

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Allow distdir to be overridden on make command line
Date: 2014-08-31 02:59:07
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSts4p1wJxLXmcZGoSCCcrAsFbsy5FHG9Ez8mNLtscGrQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 10:04 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Not just a one line patch, a one character patch.
> >
> > Use ?= instead of = in distdir assignment, so it can be overridden on
> > the command line when building dist tarballs with patches.
>
> This is already possible without this patch.
>
> You can also override the VERSION variable.
>
> Moreover, you might be interested in the configure option
> --with-extra-version.
>

--with-extra-version is available as well with MSVC scripts on HEAD.
--
Michael

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