Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Czuczy Gergely
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:54:24PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > That's nonsense. pg_config is successfully used to interface to > PostgreSQL libraries. never saw it working > > -- > Peter Eisentraut > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ > Bye, Gergely Czuczy mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Czuczy Gergely wrote: > pkg-config is a relatively new method, but most packages > (like gtk, silc's debian package, sqlite, alsa, atk, fontconfig, > freetype2, gdk-*, glib, gthread, libexslt, libpng, openssl, pango, > sigc++, xft, etc) support it, That sounds very GNOME-biased, and the list on my

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Czuczy Gergely
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:16:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Since I haven't heard anyone else asking for pkgconfig support, I'm > inclined to say we should put the whole idea on the shelf until there's > more evidence that it's worth something. pkg-config is a relatively new method, but most packag

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Czuczy Gergely) writes: > pkg-config is a standardized way to check for a package's libs and cflags. Standardized by whom? It seems like a fairly dubious idea to me, since it can't support multiple installations on one machine. I see no such directory as /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ on

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Czuczy Gergely wrote: > I've added a pkg-config script. Since the PostgreSQL source tree offers at least three APIs (libpq, ecpg, server), you should be adding at least three pkg-config scripts. I agree with others, however, that we're fine with pg_config and don't want to add more mechanisms o

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Czuczy Gergely wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:39:38AM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Czuczy Gergely wrote: > > > > > I've attached a corrected patch, the postgresql.pc.in was missing. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:49:08PM -0400, Tom Lane

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Czuczy Gergely
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:39:38AM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Czuczy Gergely wrote: > > > I've attached a corrected patch, the postgresql.pc.in was missing. > > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:49:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Czuczy Gergely) writes:

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Czuczy Gergely wrote: > I've attached a corrected patch, the postgresql.pc.in was missing. > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:49:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Czuczy Gergely) writes: > > > I've added a pkg-config script. > > > The "diff -rc -x configure from

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Czuczy Gergely
I've attached a corrected patch, the postgresql.pc.in was missing. On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:49:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Czuczy Gergely) writes: > > I've added a pkg-config script. > > The "diff -rc -x configure from to" output is attached. > > Considering that this patch

Re: [PATCHES] added pkg-config script

2004-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Czuczy Gergely) writes: > I've added a pkg-config script. > The "diff -rc -x configure from to" output is attached. Considering that this patch is lacking both the script itself, and any documentation, it's not got much hope of being accepted... But before you run off to produc