I'm trying to build packages for the slony 1.1.5 release and I found 
something pretty bizarre.  For some strange reason, several of the 
makefiles in makefiles/Makefile.$(port) where changed along the 
following lines:

-sqlmansect = 7
+%.o: %.c
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<

The log message was "Fixes by DarcyB. Should work a lot better now."

This affects the following files:

makefiles/Makefile.aix
makefiles/Makefile.freebsd
makefiles/Makefile.linux
makefiles/Makefile.openbsd
makefiles/Makefile.solaris
makefiles/Makefile.win32

This change is incomprehensible for three reasons:

1. Why change only six platforms and not the rest?

2. Removing the sqlmansect, albeit not terribly critical, prevents the 
man pages to build cleanly.

3. The added rule is a built-in rule in make, so you don't need it.

Please revert these changes.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/