[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] postgresql: remove devfiles from target

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Floris Bos,

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:39:20 +0200, Floris Bos wrote:

> > More precisely: it will simply not work. The <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS
> > mechanism assumes that the <pkg>-config files are shell scripts, in a
> > certain format. With an ELF executable compiled for the target:
> >
> >   1/ There's no way the <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS mechanism can work
> >
> >   2/ There's no real point in keeping this file on the build machine,
> >      because it's an executable built for the target.
> 
> Do wonder if we shouldn't provide a simple replacement script for 
> pg_config, e.g. just implementing "--includedir" and "--libdir"
> Might be less work than patching configure scripts that want to call 
> pg_config.

Yes, that's certainly an option. If there are many packages relying on
pg_config, it's going to be easier to provide a fake pg_config rather
than patching all those packages (such as PHP). Maybe even this
approach could be submitted for upstream inclusion in Postgresql?

Best regards,

Thomas
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