Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fabien COELHO
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.64.0707030951100.8284@briare.cri.ensmp.fr
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Dear Robert,

>> Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres
>> installations whose pg_config program does not appear first in the PATH.
>> Per gripe from Eddie Stanley and subsequent discussions with Fabien Coelho
>> and others.
>
> Is there any chance of this being backpatched?  I just spent a few hours
> tracking down a problem with compiling a 3rd party module against an 8.2
> installation installed seperatly from my systems packages install. (Ie. i
> didnt move it, but there was an additional pg_config on the system pointing
> to the wrong/other place).  I'm not exactly sure how pgxs ever worked on
> systems with multiple postgres's installed,

Simple : the target pg_config MUST be ahead in the PATH.

-- 
Fabien.


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