Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> This makes life difficult for packagers who need to re-run aclocal
>> (in my case, because Red Hat ships a different automake version than
>> you guys are using). I believe it's also a violation of the LGPL.
> Hmm, thats how Peter designed it for us so we didn't have to have our
> own copies of all the PG macros iirc. I don't have enough autoconf foo
> to know how best to fix it though. Peter?
Hm, so you're pulling those macros directly from the underlying Postgres
installation? I didn't think they got installed anywhere --- I could do
the same if they are, but not if running aclocal requires access to a
Postgres source tree.
regards, tom lane