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Re: Should contrib modules install .h files?

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2018-07-23T15:33:31Z
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

 Peter> Nobody said anything about one-file-per-extension. You can of
 Peter> course have hstore_this.h and hstore_that.h or if you want to
 Peter> have many, use postgis/this.h and postgis/that.h.

So now you want the extension to be able to _optionally_ specify a
subdirectory?

(just having the extension do  HEADERS=foo/bar.h  will not work, because
as with every other similar makefile variable, that means "install the
file foo/bar.h as bar.h, not as foo/bar.h".)

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

Commits

  1. Fix out-of-tree build for transform modules.

  2. Provide for contrib and pgxs modules to install include files.