Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation
Date: 2005-09-27 17:57:11
Message-ID: 9188.1127843831@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
> Using GetShortPathName() will break on any system that has disabled
> short filename generatino, which IIRC is a recommended best practice
> both for performance and for security in legacy apps. I don't know what
> it does, but probably it will just return the same long path again.

Yuck. Anyone have another idea on coping with space-containing
pathnames? I suppose we could try to quote the path variables properly
in all the makefiles, but that sure seems like a painful proposition.

Meanwhile, I believe I've fixed the relocatability issue per se.

regards, tom lane

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