On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The main reason contrib still has the alternate method is that PGXS
> doesn't really work until after you've installed the core build.
> For modules distributed separately from core, it doesn't seem that
> exciting to be able to build using the contrib method.
>
> Now, having said that, I'm personally interested in being able to build
> pg_migrator against an uninstalled source tree, because I foresee
> needing to do that for RPM packaging purposes. But I could easily patch
> the makefiles if needed to make that happen. I don't think this case
> should drive the choice of what's the default or common method.
Couldn't we provide a special pg_config and makefiles in the source
tree which know the right paths and does the right thing for in-tree
builds?
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greg
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