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Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
  • Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Making pgxs builds work with a relocated installation
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:57:11 -0400
  • Message-id: <9188(dot)1127843831(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
> Using GetShortPathName() will break on any system that has disabled
> short filename generatino, which IIRC is a recommended best practice
> both for performance and for security in legacy apps. I don't know what
> it does, but probably it will just return the same long path again.

Yuck.  Anyone have another idea on coping with space-containing
pathnames?  I suppose we could try to quote the path variables properly
in all the makefiles, but that sure seems like a painful proposition.

Meanwhile, I believe I've fixed the relocatability issue per se.

			regards, tom lane



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