[ redirecting to pgsql-hackers since this is not a bug ] Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> Well, I use around 10 libraries in my project, it's easier to use >> standardized >> methods to gather the compiler/linker options using pkg-config than calling >> different configuration scripts for each one,
> Just FYI, this was proposed and rejected before. pg_config is our > method. It doesn't seem like too onerous a requeriment to change "pkg-" > to "pg_", is it? The previous discussion starts here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-08/msg00433.php That requestor got off to an extremely bad start by presuming that a documentation-free patch with no prior discussion would be a sufficient way of proposing a new feature. However there are a couple of pretty compelling points mentioned later in the thread, particularly the issue of multiple installations on one machine. (And does pkg-config still not distinguish CPPFLAGS from CFLAGS?) Since that was two years ago, maybe we should take another look and see if pkg-config has gotten better. If it hasn't evolved some then the answer will probably be the same though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings