Hi Christoph, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:23:59PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Jan Engelhardt 2019-03-22 <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1903221354530.7557@xxxxxxxxxx> > > >> At least in openSUSE, PostgreSQL 11 no longer ships the pg_config > > >> program. Instead, there is has been a pkg-config file around for a > > >> while (also in pg10), so make use of that, by default. > > > > > >Debian ships pg_config. In fact, the same package libpq-dev [0] contains both > > >things: > > > > > >* /usr/bin/pg_config > > >* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libpq.pc > > > > pg_config is regarded for the server part only, says the respective maintainer. > > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1120035#c1 > > That is wishful thinking. It would be nice if all client-side > applications would use pkg-config to interface to libpq, but state of > things is still that pg_config is used by many (most?) of them. That > choice tries to force everyone to switch. If openSUSE wants to fight > that fight, good luck. > > `pg_config --libs` should not be used for linking client-side apps. > Thats an artifact from server-side linking. Any objection then OK with this patch? Not an pg expert here. Thanks.
