Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation
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Msg-id 9188.1127843831@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> Using GetShortPathName() will break on any system that has disabled
> short filename generatino, which IIRC is a recommended best practice
> both for performance and for security in legacy apps. I don't know what
> it does, but probably it will just return the same long path again.

Yuck.  Anyone have another idea on coping with space-containing
pathnames?  I suppose we could try to quote the path variables properly
in all the makefiles, but that sure seems like a painful proposition.

Meanwhile, I believe I've fixed the relocatability issue per se.
        regards, tom lane


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