Ordering problem with --with-includes

Started by Tom Lanealmost 25 years ago2 messages
#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

I find that if one specifies, say,

configure --with-includes=/usr/local/include

one gets compiler commands like

cc -Ae -g +z -I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pgtcl.o pgtcl.c

because the -I commands are added to CPPFLAGS which appears before any
-I commands the makefiles themselves add. This strikes me as uncool.
For example, it will be impossible to compile Postgres if there are
headers from an old version lurking in /usr/local/include, because those
will be read instead of the ones from our source tree. How hard would
it be to make the --with-includes -I directives appear after our own?

The same problem arises for --with-libs, btw.

regards, tom lane

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Ordering problem with --with-includes

Tom Lane writes:

How hard would it be to make the --with-includes -I directives appear
after our own?

Not hard, but tedious.

The same problem arises for --with-libs, btw.

Not tedious, but hard.

I'll look into it.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/