Re: ecpg hackery to get ecpg to compile from FreeBSD ports...

Sean Chittenden writes:

> This is anecdotal for the archives, but the problem was that when
> building with krb5, I had (wrongly?) appended krb5-config's --cflags
> output to the CFLAGS for the build... which, nine times out of ten,
> was exactly the same as what was used with the --with-includes. If
> they're different, the person's horked, but that should be a minority
> of the time. Anyway, just an FYI.

The foo-config scripts are invariably bogus[*] -- don't use them.
Especially if you're building in a predictable environment such as the
ports tree you don't even need it since the location is known.

[*] at least those that claim to give you the full CFLAGS, unlike
pg_config

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