Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:01:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>>> Yes, but even the environment variables get me what I want. I  
>>> therefore respectfully submit the attached patch to document them in  
>>> the INSTALL file.
>> It seems rather pointless to document two instances of what is in fact
>> a generic autoconf-script behavior ...
> 
> The problem is that PostgreSQL is moving out of the realm of "hard-core
> geeks only" and more into the mainstream. I'd bet a number of our users
> have very little idea how autoconf and it's progeny work. It's probably
> not unlikely that those folks would be able to figure out where their
> perl was, but then not know how to tell it to configure.

Not to mention that it is very popular to be able to specify a specific 
version of a binary/language. Just a couple of projects that allow you 
to do it now with a --with type configure statement:

subversion
mod_python
(just about any python module)


Joshua D. Drake


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