Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >> I'm interested in the exact syntax you'd use, to compare it to the >> currently used techniques.
> With the presence of VERSION_NUM directly in pg_config, the following > expression: > VERSION_NUM=$(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --version-num) > With its presence in Makefile.global, that's close to what you can do with > pg_config.h already: > VERSION_NUM := $(shell cat `$(PG_CONFIG) --libdir`/pgxs/src/Makefile.global > \ > | perl -ne 'print $$1 and exit if /VERSION_NUM =\s+(\d+)/') > But that looks a little bit magic.. I'm confused. If PG_VERSION_NUM is defined in Makefile.global, surely you don't need anything at all to make use of it in extension makefiles. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers