Re: PostGIS vs. PGXS in 9.0beta3

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> The real problem has nothing to do with any of the analysis, as you 
>> say. It is this: they have an override file for PGXS and it uses 
>> $(mkinstalldirs) which we got rid of about a year ago. So apparently 
>> they haven't been testing much against any of our alphas or betas or 
>> they would have seen this long ago. The correct fix is to do the 
>> following in the PostGIS source root:
>>
>>    sed -i -e 's/mkinstalldirs/MKDIR_P/' postgis/Makefile.pgxs
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> andrew
>
> Hmmm that's totally wrong - the override in Makefile.pgxs should only 
> ever be loaded for PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4, and not PostgreSQL 9.0 
> since it already has the correct installation paths.
>
> What I suspect is that you're actually getting bitten by this:
>
> http://markmail.org/message/k7iolbazhrqhijfk#query:pg_config%20jun%202007+page:1+mid:rqk6ux2e7npqbrzf+state:results 
>
>
> Or, in other words, configure is picking up the wrong pg_config. Since 
> the path fix in the thread was not backported to < 8.3, then the 
> presence of an another pg_config for PostgreSQL < 8.3 in PATH will 
> break things :(

No, the configure test is wrong. Here's what's in configure.ac:

   dnl Temporary hack until minimum PostgreSQL version is 8.5:   dnl If PostgreSQL < 8.5 is detected, trigger the
inclusionof the   new versioned PGXS targets   PGXSOVERRIDE=0   if test ! "$PGSQL_MINOR_VERSION" -ge 5; then
PGXSOVERRIDE=1  fi
 


Of course, we don't have any such thing as 8.5.

cheers

andrew