Re: meson's in-tree libpq header search order vs -Dextra_include_dirs

Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>

From: Mario González Troncoso <gonzalemario@gmail.com>

To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-10-09T19:09:17Z

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ci: Add missing "set -e" to scripts run by su.
- c3359d1cf5e5 15.15 landed
- 4da1f66fae83 16.11 landed
- 61cd67425f1a 17.7 landed
- ae2381025a4c 18.1 landed
- cf638b46aff2 19 (unreleased) landed
Don't put library-supplied -L/-I switches before user-supplied ones.
- 4300d8b6a79d 19 (unreleased) cited

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 at 16:06, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Added to commitfest: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6056/
>
> I'm having to carry this patch in all my development branches for now
> or I can't build on one of my regular dev machines, so I'm quite keen
> to get this into the tree soon and would back-patch to 16.
>

Can you confirm you still have this problem on current master? I tried
to reproduce it in debian 12 by installing `postgresql-server-dev-15`
and adding the -Dextra_include_dirs

> I gather no one else is affected yet, but I assume you can see the
> problem on a Mac by installing PostgreSQL with Homebrew/MacPorts, or
> on CI if you do this to .cirrus.tasks.yml:
>
>    setup_additional_packages_script: |
> -    #pkg install -y ...
> +    pkg install -y postgresql17-client
>

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