Re: HEAD doesn't cope with libraries in non-default locations

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:14:51PM +1200, Oliver Jowett wrote:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>It appears that somebody has changed things so that the -L switches
>>>appear after the -l switches (ie, too late).  I'm too tired to
>>>investigate now, but my money is on Autoconf 2.59 being the problem ...
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>>Perhaps this: 
>>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-07/msg00085.php
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>Would be my guess as well...
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>So should includes/linking for PostgreSQL-built libs be handled
>seperately? The original problem was that if --with-libraries was
>specified then libpq etc would be linked from the system locations
>instead of from within the build.
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Yes, I think so. Peter Eisentraut's analysis strikes me as being correct.

cheers

andrew