On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > 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.
Couldn't we provide a special pg_config and makefiles in the source tree which know the right paths and does the right thing for in-tree builds? -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
