Re: Building psql.exe using the free Borland compiler

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

ljb wrote:
> Found this in the archive from a month or so ago:
> 
> >> > Has anybody succeeded in building psql from 8.1.3 using bcc55?
> >> ...
> > OK, I originally had in the Makefile:
> >
> >    echo \#define SYSCONFDIR "" > pg_config_paths.h
> >
> > I changed it to:
> >
> >    echo \#define SYSCONFDIR \"\" > pg_config_paths.h
> >
> > I hope that properly puts quotes in the file.

> This change is causing me grief when trying to compile libpq from
> PostgreSQL-8.1.4 using Borland BCC32. The above echo command puts
> exactly this into my pg_config_paths.h:
>         #define SYSCONFDIR \"\"

Maybe we should use

echo -e \#define SYSCONFDIR \"\" > pg_config_paths.h

in the Makefile instead.  Does that work for you?

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