Re: Python (PyGreSQL) make install patch

Jason Tishler writes:

> Unfortunately, this patch does not handle the case where PostgreSQL
> and Python are configured with different prefixes.

...which is the case more often than not.

> Since the Python
> Makefile is automatically generated and does not use DESTDIR, I believe
> that this issue will be difficult to correct.  If anyone has ideas on
> how to fix this issue, then I'm quite willing to rework the patch to
> take the suggestion into account.

Rip out the python makefile and reimplement the build yourself.  ;-)

Besides DESTDIR, the python makefile doesn't support VPATH either.  (It
claims to do so, but it doesn't work.)  I'd also like a way to install the
module as non-root user.

I'm quite serious about the ripping out actually, but it's probably a bit
more work than you care for.

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