On 2/7/22 21:40, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: >> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >>> What is the reason behind subtracting ccdlflags? >> It looks like the coding actually originated here: >> commit f5d0c6cad5bb2706e0e63f3f8f32e431ea428100 > Ah, here's the thread leading up to that: > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/200106191206.f5JC6R108371%40candle.pha.pa.us > > The use of ldopts rather than hand-hacked link options seems to date to > 0ed7864d6, only a couple days before that. I don't think we had a > buildfarm then, but I'd bet against the problem being especially > widespread even then, or more people would've complained.
The buildfarm's first entry is from 22 Oct 2004. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
