Re: Cygwin PostgreSQL Distribution

Jason Tishler writes:

> Peter,
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:26:50PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Jason Tishler writes:
> >
> > >     include/lib
> > >     include/libpq
> >
> > What do you put into these two?
>
>     $ find lib libpq++
>     lib
>     lib/dllist.h
>     libpq++
>     libpq++/pgconnection.h
>     libpq++/pgcursordb.h
>     libpq++/pgdatabase.h
>     libpq++/pglobject.h
>     libpq++/pgtransdb.h

I see, my fault.  I thought the libpq was for the client side library, but
it's of course the backend's directory.  Everything's great.

>
> > It's not necessarily a good idea to
> > divert from the standard layout under include because people might start
> > relying on `pg_config --includedir` to configure their packages.  But if
> > there is some standard that requires you to do this...
>
> My intention was *not* to deviate from the standard PostgreSQL layout.
> I got the previously mentioned directory structure by just configuring
> as follows:
>
>     configure --prefix=/usr/pgsql --with-CXX
>
> Did I do something wrong?  How should I configure?

This is good, but before long users will pester you for stuff like
--enable-locale, --enable-multibyte, --with-perl, etc.  ;-)

I don't know about the Cygwin file system conventions, but do people have
to alter their PATH and MANPATH (and LD_LIBRARY_PATH?) setting for each
new package they install?  No shared installation locations?

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