Didier Verna wrote:
>
>[ Cc'ed to the XEmacs development list and the postgres debian package
> maintainer ]
>
> Hi!
>
> After upgrading my debian system (woody), the postgres package went
>from 6.5 to 7.0b3. On debian linux boxes, the postgres headers are located
>under /usr/include/postgresql/.
>
> The file `libpq-fe.h' #include's the file `postgres_ext.h' using <>
>instead of "" (line 27). As a consequence, applications that just do:
>
>| #include <full/path/to/libpq-fe.h>
>
>can't build anymore because the file `postgres_ext.h' is not in the path. Th
>is
>happens to be the case for XEmacs. I believe this is a bug because:
>
>1/ this didn't happen with my former version 6.5
>2/ the usage of <> or "" doesn't seem to be coherent among the headers
>3/ it's better to use "" when headers installed in the same place have to
> include each others
The Debian documentation used to include a statement that
`-I/usr/include/postgresql' should be included in the compilation options.
That seems to have got lost.
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