[HACKERS] Better path-matching for package relocatability (was Re: [BUGS] horology regression test failure)

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane [2005-12-20 16:39 -0500]: We could doubtless improve make_relative_path to some extent, but the mess you have above seems impossible to deal with. How is a mere program supposed to deduce where things were moved to, given only knowledge of the

Re: [HACKERS] Better path-matching for package relocatability (was Re:

2005-12-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Well, more generally what we need is a better match algorithm in make_relative_path. After a few moment's thought I propose: * Determine the common prefix of the compiled-in target_path and bin_path (for typical cases this would be /usr or /usr/local; worst case is that the