On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:13:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Is that sufficient? The clients probably are not affected by quite as
> many config options as the server, but they still have a nontrivial
> list. (Multibyte, SSL, Kerberos come to mind at once.) I'd not like
> to see us assume that a one-line output format will do the job.
>
> A way to interrogate the libpq being used by psql might be good too.
I like the way perl handles this, for example
perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts
for options to cc used when compiling(-I and stuff) and
perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts
for options to ld used when compiling(-L and stuff).
I think it would be really nice if we could have psql to ask its libpq to
spew out something similiar. Then you could do stuff like
cc -o ex ex.c `psql -ccopts -ldopts`
and not having to worry about where the libraries are.
-- Magnus
