Re: Makefile.global will override configure parameters if "pgsql" and "postgres" appear anywhere in the source path name

On 2022-Jul-15, Andy Bailey wrote:

> After some investigation, I found that the value of pkglibdir (as used
> by src/Makefile.global and various other places) was different even
> though the ./configure invocations were identical. Eventually, I found
> that Makefile.global was the culprit, with some sections like:
>
> pkglibdir = $(libdir)
> ifeq "$(findstring pgsql, $(pkglibdir))" ""
> ifeq "$(findstring postgres, $(pkglibdir))" ""
> override pkglibdir := $(pkglibdir)/postgresql
> endif
> endif

Right. See commit 984b0b4df83f and its discussion at [1]. The working
theory (as I remember it) is that if the installation is already
postgres-specific (because the user has made it so by having "pgsql" or
"postgres" in the argument to --prefix), then we don't need to add
another level of postgres-specificity to it; but otherwise we add
"/postgresql" to the path so that the resulting files don't end up mixed
with files installed by unrelated packages.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/Pine.LNX.4.21.0010042208350.934-100000%40peter.localdomain

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