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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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To: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] facing problem with ecpg
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> The exec sql should be there after running ecpg. ecpg is a 
> preprocessor. You have to feed you're source (should be named file.pgc 
> BTW) through ecpg before running cc. That is:
>  ecpg tryecpg.pgc
>  cc -o tryecpg tryecpg.c -lecpg -lpq

Michael, could you add a short section with this info to your ecpg sgml
documentation? Also, perhaps you would want to include an example on how
to set up a makefile with a general production rule.

                      - Tom