Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Another option would be to distribute both 8.4 and 8.5 shared objects,
> but that would require access to two source trees to perform the
> compile, which seems very error-prone.
That's what any extension author and/or packager is faced with. Using
debian, it's easy enough to have more than one postgresql-server-dev-8.X
package at the same time and then use VPATH builds.
I guess the scripts I'm preparing for easing the debian packaging of
extensions should be usable on other Unix systems too, after adapting
some of the paths.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-postgresql-public/2010-January/000546.html
Regards,
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dim