Re: Cygwin PostgreSQL Distribution

Peter,

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:50:25PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This is good, but before long users will pester you for stuff like
> --enable-locale, --enable-multibyte, --with-perl, etc.  ;-)

The above is expected and fine with me.  If Cygwin PostgreSQL can
support the requested functionality, then I will build and package as
appropriate.

> I don't know about the Cygwin file system conventions, but do people have
> to alter their PATH and MANPATH (and LD_LIBRARY_PATH?) setting for each
> new package they install?

No.

> No shared installation locations?

No, so far all (latest and contrib) packages share the same installation
location -- /usr.

I was just blindly going along with what configure (with defaults)
and Kevin Lo's Windows 2000 web page suggested.

With more information and some reflection, I would like to configure
Cygwin PostgreSQL as follows:

    configure --with-CXX --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/postgresql \
    --mandir=/usr/man --docdir=/usr/doc/postgresql-$version \
    --includedir=/usr/include/postgresql --datadir=/usr/share/postgresql

where $version is the PostgreSQL version (e.g., 7.1RC3) and the
--docdir value is following a Cygwin /usr/doc convention.

Note that the above configure options are essentially a subset of those
used to generate the RPM on the PostgreSQL ftp site.  The only exception
is the --docdir value.  Is this layout more acceptable?

Thanks,
Jason

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