Re: pg_migrator mention in documentation

Joe Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >>> Consistency here is pointless. IIRC the dual method is used in contrib
> >>> because people did not trust the PGXS stuff enough to rip the original
> >>> Make code out; or maybe because people did not want PGXS to become the
> >>> default build method, but they allowed it to be used in contrib as a
> >>> test bed that PGXS worked.
> >> The main reason contrib still has the alternate method is that PGXS
> >> doesn't really work until after you've installed the core build.
> >> For modules distributed separately from core, it doesn't seem that
> >> exciting to be able to build using the contrib method.
> >>
> >> Now, having said that, I'm personally interested in being able to build
> >> pg_migrator against an uninstalled source tree, because I foresee
> >> needing to do that for RPM packaging purposes. But I could easily patch
> >> the makefiles if needed to make that happen. I don't think this case
> >> should drive the choice of what's the default or common method.
> >
> > Well, PGXS is now the recommended install method in the pg_migrator
> > INSTALL file. What other changes should I make?
>
> Since PGXS does not work under Windows, I think the only way to build
> non-contrib extensions on Windows is the contrib way (i.e. place in
> contrib folder and use contrib style Makefile).

I assume this work too:

gmake top_builddir=/usr/src/pgsql install

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