From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Gerhard Haering <haering_postgresql@gmx.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Cc: darcy@druid.net
Subject: Re: python bug
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:09:57 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200212300509.gBU59vl25014@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021216025120.GB4825@gargamel.ghaering.test>
Fix applied. I think we will be moving python and tcl out of /interfaces
to gborg for 7.4.
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Gerhard Haering wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [2002-12-14 20:50 -0500]:
> > I saw this in the python source setup.py:
> >
> > include_dirs=['/usr/include/pgsql']
> > library_dirs=['usr/lib/pgsql']
> > ^^^
> > optional_libs=['pq']
> > data_files = []
> >
> > Is the lack of a leading slash correct?
>
> No.
>
> It should really be
>
> library_dirs=['/usr/lib/pgsql']
>
> *But* is this really the default place where PostgreSQL installs its
> libraries? I thought this was rather /usr/local/lib?
>
> If anybody wants to improve the setup.py part of PyGreSQL, I'd recommend
> you take a look at the setup.py file for our altnernative PostgreSQL/Python
> adapter:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pypgsql/pypgsql/setup.py?rev=HEAD&content-type=te...
>
> We recently put considerable effort in to make pyPgSQL build out of the box
> on many platforms (Debian, SuSE, Redhat Linux, FreeBSD, OpenUnix, Windows,
> MacOS X, Cygwin plus untested support for a few other platforms).
>
> And of course pyPgSQL is licensed under a liberal BSD-like license as well
> :-)
>
> Btw. another question. I noticed that a few interfaces (Perl comes to mind)
> have been moved out of the PostgreSQL tree to gborg. Maybe it'd be a good
> idea to do that for PyGreSQL as well?
>
> -- Gerhard
>
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