Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But ISTM that the remedy (breaking all past makefiles for all extensions) > is not worth the issue. > A better documentation, and possibly following your suggestion with an > explicit PG_CONFIG in contrib makefiles, but without breaking existing > extensions seems quite enough. The error made by Eddie is legitimate, but > it is also something rare, it did not come up in the last two years.
True. OK, then let's add the ifndef to Makefile.global and change the existing extension makefiles to PG_CONFIG := pg_config PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs) include $(PGXS) Any objections? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org