Re: Tom Lane > Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> writes: > > I think the "bug" here is that vanilla PG doesn't support installing > > in FHS locations with /usr/lib and /usr/share split, hence the Debian > > patch. > > I'm confused by this statement. An out-of-the-box installation > produces trees under $PREFIX/lib and $PREFIX/share. What about > that is not FHS compliant? And couldn't you fix it using the > installation fine-tuning switches that configure already provides?
To support multiple major versions in parallel, we need /usr/lib/postgresql/NN/lib and /usr/share/postgresql/NN, so it's not a single $PREFIX. But you are correct, and ./configure supports that. I was confusing that with this: The problem that led to the pg_config patch years ago was that we have a /usr/bin/pg_config in (non-major-version-dependant) libpq-dev, and /usr/lib/postgresql/NN/bin/pg_config in the individual postgresql-server-dev-NN packages, and iirc the /usr/bin version didn't particularly like the other binaries being in /usr/lib/postgresql/NN/bin/. I guess it's time to revisit that problem now and see if it can be solved more pretty today on our side. Sorry for the rumbling, Christoph
