Re: 7.4 include file conflict

Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:01:51PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Maybe that fixes the Red Hat issue, but we have the Cygwin issue with
> > Win32's sqltypes.h, and there is the issue for other platforms, no?   Is
> > that install change going to be for all platforms?
> 
> The problem as I see it is that some software installs an include file
> with the same name into /usr/include. So if you specify -I
> /usr/include/pgsql/ecpg you still essantially override this file. Now
> the question is whether anyone would have to use the ecpg sqltypes.h and
> the other one, be it a windows file or th unixodbc or the iodbc one.

Are you saying some programs will look in /usr/include before looking in
-I specified directories, and that is the whole problem?  If so, that is
100% wrong and we don't have to fix our files to workaround this.

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