Use of PROFILE in Makefiles

[Mayuresh Nirhali <Mayuresh.Nirhali@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I could not build pg8.2.4 on Solaris x86 because the variable PROFILE 
was set in my path to desktop profile script.
Pg makfiles (Makfile.global) appends value of PROFILE if set to CFLAGS.

I was wondering if there is any particular reason for having PROFILE 
appended to CFLAGS.
If this setting is platform specific then will it help moving that to 
platform specific makefiles ??


Thanks
Mayuresh