The main use of that make variable is to pass in -Werror. It makes
sense to apply this to C++ as well.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/
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it will break many of <filename>configure</filename>'s built-in tests. To add
such flags, include them in the <envar>COPT</envar> environment variable
while running <filename>make</filename>. The contents of <envar>COPT</envar>
- are added to both the <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and <envar>LDFLAGS</envar>
+ are added to the <envar>CFLAGS</envar>, <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>, and <envar>LDFLAGS</envar>
options set up by <filename>configure</filename>. For example, you could do
<screen>
<userinput>make COPT='-Werror'</userinput>
#
ifdef COPT
CFLAGS += $(COPT)
+ CXXFLAGS += $(COPT)
LDFLAGS += $(COPT)
endif