Re: pg_config/share_dir

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>pg_config doesn't currently seem to have an option to report the
> >>share_dir. Should it?
> >
> >Is there a case where a user would need anything from there?

the way wo do this in slony is with the following macro:

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for postgresql.conf.sample)
PGSHARE_POSSIBLE_LOCATIONS="${with_pgsharedir} /usr/local/pgsql/share /usr/local/share/postgresql /usr/share/postgresql /usr/local/share/pgsql /usr/share/pgsql /opt/local/pgsql/share /opt/pgsql/share
${PG_BINDIR}/../share
for i in $PGSHARE_POSSIBLE_LOCATIONS; do
if test -s "$i/postgresql.conf.sample" ; then
PG_SHAREDIR=$i/
break;
fi
done

if test -n "$PG_SHAREDIR" ; then
AC_MSG_RESULT(${PG_SHAREDIR}postgresql.conf.sample)
AC_DEFINE(PG_SHAREDIR_VERIFIED,1,[PostgreSQL sharedir])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT(not found)
AC_MSG_ERROR(
postgresql.conf.sample not found! Please specify the sharedir
with --with-pgsharedir=<dir>
)
fi

(where ${PG_BINDIR} is the result of: pg_config --bindir )

>
> Why would they need pkglibdir either? I was asked about this by an
> author who wanted to use it to find where to put module config/setup
> scripts.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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