Re: Michael Paquier > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:48:11AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > It never caused any problem in the 12+ years we have been doing this, > > but Debian is patching pg_config not to be relocatable since we are > > installing into /usr/lib/postgresql/NN /usr/share/postgresql/NN, so > > not a single prefix. > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/-/blob/15/debian/patches/50-per-version-dirs.patch > > Wow. This is the way for Debian to bypass the fact that ./configure > is itself patched, hence you cannot rely on things like --libdir, > --bindir and the kind at build time? That's.. Err.. Fancy, I'd > say.
--libdir and --bindir will point at the final install locations. I think the "bug" here is that vanilla PG doesn't support installing in FHS locations with /usr/lib and /usr/share split, hence the Debian patch. Christoph
