On lör, 2012-02-25 at 14:21 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Well, I'm trying to invoke the extension's "make check" target at
> extension build time. I do have a temporary installation I own
> somehwere in my $HOME, but that is still trying to find extensions in
> /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension/*.control, because I am using the
> system's postgresql version. The build process is not running as root,
> so I cannot do an install of the extension to its final location.
> Still it would be nice to run regression tests. All that seems to be
> missing is the ability to put
>
> extension_control_path = /home/buildd/tmp/extension
>
> into the postgresql.conf of the temporary PG installation, or some
> other way like "CREATE EXTENSION foobar WITH CONTROL
> '/home/buildd/...'.
Yeah, of course, the extension path is not related to the data
directory. So we do need some kind of path setting, just like
dynamic_library_path.