I suppose an easy workaround is to copy my version 9.6 pg_config.h into my user/include/postgresql directory and replace the one installed by libpq-dev.
Can you think of any detrimental side-effects from doing that? Travis On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: > On 01/05/2018 03:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Travis Allison <travisalli...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Tom, where's the -l switch exactly? What command is it attached to? (I'm >>> not sure what to look for.) >>> >> >> Look into the extension's Makefile for something roughly along the lines >> of >> > > Assuming the OP is talking about this: > > https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb > > I believe there is an intervening step: > > # Bootstrap the build system > ./bootstrap > > If I am following correctly the -I are in: > > CMakeLists.txt > > # Get PostgreSQL configuration from pg_config > execute_process( > COMMAND ${PG_CONFIG} --includedir > OUTPUT_VARIABLE PG_INCLUDEDIR > OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE) > execute_process( > COMMAND ${PG_CONFIG} --includedir-server > OUTPUT_VARIABLE PG_INCLUDEDIR_SERVER > OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE) > > > There does seem to be an apt install: > > http://docs.timescale.com/v0.8/getting-started/installation/ > linux/installation-apt > > with the following caveats: > " > Note: PostgreSQL 9.6 is required for TimescaleDB on Ubuntu distros. > Releases with PostgreSQL 10 are coming soon > Prerequisites > > Ubuntu 16.04 or later > > Build & Install > > WARNING:If you have another PostgreSQL installation not via apt, this > will likely cause problems. If you wish to maintain your current version of > PostgreSQL outside of apt, we recommend installing from source. Otherwise > please be sure to remove non-apt installations before using this method. > > " > > >> CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/include/postgresql >> >> Very likely there's some amount of macro-ization involved, so it might >> look more like >> >> INCLUDEDIR = /usr/include/postgresql >> ... >> CPPFLAGS = -I$(INCLUDEDIR) >> >> Furthermore, given our current theory, there's going to be more than >> one -I switch on that line, and you want to get rid of just one. >> >> regards, tom lane >> >> > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com >
