Re: 8.0 libpq: missing get_home_path()

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> writes:
> > > I tried compile some program with latest CVS libpq:
> >
> > > gcc -O2 -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -I/usr/include/httpd
> > > -Wall -I/usr/lib/postgresql/include -DLIBAPMOM_FUNCALL=1 -Wall
> > > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations `xml2-config --cflags`
> > > `Wand-config --cppflags` -o jsn-importer main.o file.o db.o md5.o
> > > -L/usr/lib/postgresql/lib -lpq `xml2-config --libs` -lMagick -lWand
> >
> > > /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `get_home_path'
> >
> > There's another problem here, which is that pulling port/path.c into
> > libpq to fix this will pollute application namespace with a whole bunch
> > of global symbols that don't use a PQ or pq prefix.
>
> Yea, I am seeing that now too. My guess is that I am going to have to
> go with a macro for get_home_path like I did for is_absolute_path.

I need to call canonicalize_path() in the macro. That kills the macro
idea.

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