Re: What generates pg_config.h?

I suppose an easy workaround is to copy my version 9.6 pg_config.h into my
user/include/postgresql directory and replace the one installed by
libpq-dev.

Can you think of any detrimental side-effects from doing that?

Travis

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 01/05/2018 03:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Travis Allison <travisallison(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>> Tom, where's the -l switch exactly? What command is it attached to? (I'm
>>> not sure what to look for.)
>>>
>>
>> Look into the extension's Makefile for something roughly along the lines
>> of
>>
>
> Assuming the OP is talking about this:
>
> https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
>
> I believe there is an intervening step:
>
> # Bootstrap the build system
> ./bootstrap
>
> If I am following correctly the -I are in:
>
> CMakeLists.txt
>
> # Get PostgreSQL configuration from pg_config
> execute_process(
> COMMAND ${PG_CONFIG} --includedir
> OUTPUT_VARIABLE PG_INCLUDEDIR
> OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
> execute_process(
> COMMAND ${PG_CONFIG} --includedir-server
> OUTPUT_VARIABLE PG_INCLUDEDIR_SERVER
> OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
>
>
> There does seem to be an apt install:
>
> http://docs.timescale.com/v0.8/getting-started/installation/
> linux/installation-apt
>
> with the following caveats:
> "
> Note: PostgreSQL 9.6 is required for TimescaleDB on Ubuntu distros.
> Releases with PostgreSQL 10 are coming soon
> Prerequisites
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 or later
>
> Build & Install
>
> WARNING:If you have another PostgreSQL installation not via apt, this
> will likely cause problems. If you wish to maintain your current version of
> PostgreSQL outside of apt, we recommend installing from source. Otherwise
> please be sure to remove non-apt installations before using this method.
>
> "
>
>
>> CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/include/postgresql
>>
>> Very likely there's some amount of macro-ization involved, so it might
>> look more like
>>
>> INCLUDEDIR = /usr/include/postgresql
>> ...
>> CPPFLAGS = -I$(INCLUDEDIR)
>>
>> Furthermore, given our current theory, there's going to be more than
>> one -I switch on that line, and you want to get rid of just one.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>