Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Steve Coleman <scoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> My problem is that 8.4.2 source has no "Makefile.global". This file is essential I believe, and is used by all of the Makefiles in the source tarball. > Makefile.global is created by the configure step. This has not changed > since 8.1. On second thought, I got too immersed in answering the question you asked, and failed to answer the uber-question which is whether there's a better way to do it. Yes: use pgxs. Then you don't need a configured source tree at all, and everything you do need should come in pre-built installations. If you started by copying a contrib makefile then you should have a block like ifdef USE_PGXS PG_CONFIG = pg_config PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs) include $(PGXS) else subdir = contrib/auto_explain top_builddir = ../.. include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global include $(top_srcdir)/contrib/contrib-global.mk endif You could use this as-is by always typing "make USE_PGXS=1", but what I'd suggest is dropping the ifdef and the else block so that pgxs becomes the default. Contrib modules have this so they can be built either way, but you don't really need that flexibility for a private module. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
