Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 3:11 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Having said that, it does work on non-Windows machines to do >> ./configure ... >> cd src/interfaces/libpq >> make -s install > Well, asking people to download the whole source tree just to build > client library 1000 times and then 1000 times delete the source code... Uh ... why are you installing from source at all, if that's your use-case? Most major distributions provide packages that subdivide Postgres into client and server packages, and usually there's even a package with just the library(s). > So instead of simplifying the life of maintainers in the different distros > you made the life easier for yourself. ;;-) Well, yeah. Packaging is a different business. And, having *been* a packager for Red Hat for a decade, it's not like I've never heard of it. But I don't see anything we need to do differently there. regards, tom lane
