Re: [HACKERS] int 8 on FreeBSD

The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
[..]
> > 
> > BTW: why the configure script think's that tcl and tk includes
> > (tclConfig.sh,tkConfig.sh) must reside in the same directory ?
> > That's really an odd assumtion.
> 
> Its only an odd assumption to those on FreeBSD...we tend to be the only
> ones that pervert most of the "standards" as far as installation
> directories are concerned, and require specific handholding to get things
> to install :(

..but it is possible on FreeBSD to run several different tcl/tk pairs
in parallel, so it turns out that it is the better way and I can't
remeber that I have had such problems with an other package.

Personally I HATE GNU's autoconf, it is really a pain to get things
working on "non standard environments". I prefer a Makefile in which
I can set options directly. But this is my own opinion and I can 
understand why others doesn't think so.

> 
> See /usr/ports/databases/postgresql/Makefile, where it provides the
> various --with-tcl= directives required...

Yeah, I've build PGSQL without the ports, because there was no port
of 6.4.2 to the time I needed it, and I've got it finally working.

Another question:

Watfor is the patches directory on ftp.postgresql.org/pub ?
It contains almost nothing of the actual patches from
the -patches mailinglist.
This makes it really not simple to get a halfways actual setup
without sup/cvsup or so...

Holm
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