Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What if we create a build/ directory as part of install that > pg_config.h, Makefile.global, etc, anything a plugin would need, and > install it by default. Then, if we give folks an easy way to access > them from their own apps and Makefiles, it would solve most of the > problems.
No it wouldn't, because those files *do not work outside the build tree*. There are built-in assumptions about where the Makefiles themselves live relative to the include tree, where the invoking module is relative to all that, etc. Certainly there are a couple of files we need to install that we currently don't, but it's going to take some actual work beyond that to fix the problem. See for example https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112244 and if you're interested try to fix it yourself; it didn't seem trivial when I was poking at it. The specific details aren't especially relevant to this thread, though. What is relevant is that we agree to a commitment that we will make it easy to build modules outside the current Postgres build environment, and that we will have an ongoing commitment to make sure that that keeps working. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
