| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, aspeitia(at)sells(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 7.4 include file conflict |
| Date: | 2003-12-17 00:00:25 |
| Message-ID: | 200312170000.hBH00Po13927@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:01:51PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Maybe that fixes the Red Hat issue, but we have the Cygwin issue with
> > Win32's sqltypes.h, and there is the issue for other platforms, no? Is
> > that install change going to be for all platforms?
>
> The problem as I see it is that some software installs an include file
> with the same name into /usr/include. So if you specify -I
> /usr/include/pgsql/ecpg you still essantially override this file. Now
> the question is whether anyone would have to use the ecpg sqltypes.h and
> the other one, be it a windows file or th unixodbc or the iodbc one.
Are you saying some programs will look in /usr/include before looking in
-I specified directories, and that is the whole problem? If so, that is
100% wrong and we don't have to fix our files to workaround this.
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