Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2004-05-19 02:49:45
Message-ID: 200405182249.45619.lowen@pari.edu
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On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:58, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > So you then have to build PHP twice, in an RPM build environment. You
> > mean I can't just have the headers installed to build plPHP? So, follow
> > the

> No you need to make sure that PHP is available as a shared lib.

Which requires you to build PHP. PHP is only going to get built once; do you
build with or without PostgreSQL client support? As an RPM builder, you
cannot build it one way, then rebuild it again another way. It's not
self-hosting at that point.

> > Try building the RPMs for PHP plus PostgreSQL and plPHP, then tell me how
> > you solved the circular dependency.

> Actually plPHP doesn't require the PostgreSQL source tree... you would
> just have to modify the Make file to point to the right places.

Then it can easily be a standalone project, and the issues go away.
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Lamar Owen
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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Rosman, NC 28772
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