| From: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against |
| Date: | 2007-07-03 07:53:28 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0707030951100.8284@briare.cri.ensmp.fr |
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Dear Robert,
>> Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres
>> installations whose pg_config program does not appear first in the PATH.
>> Per gripe from Eddie Stanley and subsequent discussions with Fabien Coelho
>> and others.
>
> Is there any chance of this being backpatched? I just spent a few hours
> tracking down a problem with compiling a 3rd party module against an 8.2
> installation installed seperatly from my systems packages install. (Ie. i
> didnt move it, but there was an additional pg_config on the system pointing
> to the wrong/other place). I'm not exactly sure how pgxs ever worked on
> systems with multiple postgres's installed,
Simple : the target pg_config MUST be ahead in the PATH.
--
Fabien.
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