Travis Allison <travisallison@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I suppose an easy workaround is to copy my version 9.6 pg_config.h into my > user/include/postgresql directory and replace the one installed by > libpq-dev. > Can you think of any detrimental side-effects from doing that? I would not recommend that: it's likely to break code that's expecting the Ubuntu-standard layout. I think your best course is to adapt the particular package you're having trouble with to work with that layout. Maybe contact its author for help? regards, tom lane