On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:43:27 +0100 Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 15.42:14 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > I'd also appreciate some suggestion about dev environment and > > best practices on Debian, something that could help me to > > compile, install, test easily on Debian. > > (Disclaimer: Haven't done any postgres related programming so far, > so this might need adjusting.) > > The desciption for package postgresql-server-dev-8.4 includes > > [[[ > This package also contains the Makefiles necessary for building > add-on modules of PostgreSQL, which would otherwise have to be > built in the PostgreSQL source-code tree. > ]]] I need some babysitting from someone that actually developed extension on Debian. The package was already installed, but it seems it provides more than just the header files. Now that I know I can build extensions outside pg source tree I'd be nice I understand how to make it in a kosher way. If I had to build stuff in the pg source tree I'd just clone a contrib directory and change the makefile [1]. What am I supposed to do if I'd like to create a contrib elsewhere (eg. ~/Documents/nfs/projects/ts_extensions)? I've seen some forward to this list from pgsql-hackers. Would that list be a better place to ask this kind of things or is it too elite ;) for newbies? [1] actually I tried to make in a contrib module dir in pg source code tree... but unless you run ./configure at the root of the source tree it fails. So I've to guess that -dev gives you a preconfigured environment. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
