[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38491] PKG_ADD fails with __all_db_opts__ undefined

[Olaf Till]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #38491 (project octave):

> I disagree that this bug is invalid. If some OS has the
> postgres headers without the postgres/ prefix, that should be
> accounted for by the configure script.

The include directory postgresql/ and its subdirectories contain files with
quite general names, which should not be in the main include directory due to
danger of file name clashes. 'c.h', e.g., is also a name of a file provided by
deb-package libsrecord-dev; 'port.h' is in many other packages. It would not
be nice to rely on all other packages to keep their possibly name-clashing
include files in extra directories so that postgresql needn't do it. Keeping
the subdirectories of postgresql/ in the main include directory would also be
no solution since these are partially also very generally named (e.g.
'utils'); and one of the two 'c.h' files of postgresql is not even in a
subdirectory, but directly under postgresql/ (on my system).

So my thinking that it is just an error to keep postgesqls include files in
the main include directory had reasons. Except if someone can tell me some
reason that I can't see yet, I'd still think that it is not reasonable to try
to configure for postgresql include files in the main include directory.

> Yeah, bugs are annoying, but we can't just dismiss bugs because
> they're annoying.

I don't think that bugs are annoying, and I don't dismiss bugs just because
they are annoying.


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