Re: Changes to handling version numbers internally

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker writes:
>
> > that is what I'm kinda asking for ... maybe some POSTGRES/etc directory
> > can be created, or create a file under lib that just contains that one
> > command?
> >
> > think about Lamar's RPMs ... might not be many that would, but some might
> > like to be able to look at a file and see what args he used to configure
> > it, in case they want to keep what is currently there, but add an option
> > that he didn't put in ...
>
> Good point. (Although the RPMs do way too much custom patching right now
> for this to be very useful.)
>
> Someone recently asked for a utility along the lines of gnome-config so
> they can get the installation paths for the libraries and include files
> for their package. Maybe we can work the configure command line into that.
>
> $ pg-config --includedir
> /usr/local/pgsql/include
> $ pg-config --libdir
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib
> $ pg-config --configure
> --enable-debug --with-CXX
>
> Comments?

That would be perfect also