Re: 7.4 include file conflict

Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:25PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No I meant to say that you will always get our file and not the one in
> /usr/include. That means you must not specify our -I option if you need
> the file in /usr/include. Since this file may be needed together with
> pgsql The best way seems to be moving just the compat headers IMO.

Yes, that's what I was afraid of.  Once you add -I, there is no way to
access the /usr/include files matching names that are also in the -I
path.  You could use #include "/usr/include/xxx.h", but no one does
that, and I can imagine including a system include that itself wants to
include one of those /usr/include files rather than the pgsql file.

Are you suggesting moving the ecpg files into pgsql/include/ecpg?  Do we
know that no one using ecpg is going to be including a /usr/include file
that needs /usr/include/xxx.h?


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