Andrew Dunstan writes:
> How about if we have a configuration flag --enable-relocation which would
> require a fixed layout based on an indeterminate root. This would have the
> following effects:
>
> . if prefix did not contain 'postgres' or 'pgsql' then
> 'postgresql' would be appended.
> . all *dir configure options would be forbidden - they would
> be based on the prefix as now, and since it would contain 'postgres' the
> simple layout we want would be used.
> . binaries would have a DEFINE which would mean they would know they
> should look for other binaries and shared files in locations which are
> fixed relative to their own location rather than in the hardcoded
> locations.
Looks good to me. Others?
Cheers,
Claudio
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