Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 27 September 2005 18:57
> To: Magnus Hagander
> Cc: Dave Page; Peter Eisentraut; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Making pgxs builds work with a
> relocated installation
>
> "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.

Actually it seems to work quite nicely - on Windows 2000 with short
names disabled it generates paths like:

C:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\8.1-beta2\bin

Ie, it still fixes the spaces, but leaves the long bits, umm, long. With
short names enabled (on XP), you get:

C:\PROGRA~1\POSTGR~1\827E4~1.1-B\bin

Which is truly hideous, but works as expected in cmd.exe and Msys.

Patch attached that does this, and doubles up on the backslashes to keep
msys/make happy. Cmd.exe doesn't seem to care about the double
backslashes.

Regards, Dave