Re: pg_config/share_dir

Darcy Buskermolen wrote:

>On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>>Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>pg_config doesn't currently seem to have an option to report the
>>>>share_dir. Should it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Is there a case where a user would need anything from there?
>>>
>>>
>
>the way wo do this in slony is with the following macro:
>
>AC_MSG_CHECKING(for postgresql.conf.sample)
>PGSHARE_POSSIBLE_LOCATIONS="${with_pgsharedir} /usr/local/pgsql/share /usr/local/share/postgresql /usr/share/postgresql /usr/local/share/pgsql /usr/share/pgsql /opt/local/pgsql/share /opt/pgsql/share
>${PG_BINDIR}/../share
>for i in $PGSHARE_POSSIBLE_LOCATIONS; do
> if test -s "$i/postgresql.conf.sample" ; then
> PG_SHAREDIR=$i/
> break;
> fi
>done
>
>if test -n "$PG_SHAREDIR" ; then
> AC_MSG_RESULT(${PG_SHAREDIR}postgresql.conf.sample)
> AC_DEFINE(PG_SHAREDIR_VERIFIED,1,[PostgreSQL sharedir])
>else
> AC_MSG_RESULT(not found)
> AC_MSG_ERROR(
> postgresql.conf.sample not found! Please specify the sharedir
> with --with-pgsharedir=<dir>
> )
>fi
>
>
>(where ${PG_BINDIR} is the result of: pg_config --bindir )
>
>
>

That's foul, and looks horribly fragile too. You have just provided what
seems to me a perfect use case.

cheers

andrew