Re: Autoconf, libpq and replacement function

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autoconf, libpq and replacement function
Date: 2008-11-20 21:05:45
Message-ID: 7877.1227215145@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Since fnmatch and the #define's are supposed to be provided by
>> <fnmatch.h>, I think you should probably put the substitute definitions
>> in a substitute fnmatch.h, not port.h, to avoid that risk.

> Do we have an example where we do that before? I assume there is some
> autoconfy way to make that include file only "appear" in the include
> path if the system one doesn't exist or is broken?

Not really. I'd suggest making the callers do something like

#ifdef HAVE_FNMATCH
#include <fnmatch.h>
#else
#include "port/pg_fnmatch.h"
#endif

regards, tom lane

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