DESTDIR=/else/where' and prepends the value of DESTDIR to the full
installation paths (e.g., /else/where/usr/local/pgsql/bin). This allows
users to install the package into a location different from the one that
was configured and hard-coded into various scripts, e.g., for creating
binary packages.

DESTDIR is in many cases preferrable over `make install
prefix=/else/where' because

a) `prefix' affects the path that is hard-coded into the files, which can
lead to a `make install prefix=xxx' (as done by the regression test
driver) corrupting the files in the source tree with wrong paths.

b) it doesn't work at all if a directory was overridden to not depend on
`prefix', e.g., --sysconfdir=/etc.

(Updating the regression test driver to use DESTDIR is a separate
undertaking.)

See also autoconf@gnu.org, From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>, Date: 08
Sep 2000 12:48:59 +0200, Message-ID:
<mv4em2vb1lw.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr>, Subject: Re: HTML format
documentation.

to one another. Sort out builddir vs srcdir variable namings. Remove some
now obsoleted make variables.

incarnations (I hope). When an acceptable flex version is not found, print
instructive error messages from both configure and the makefiles, so that
users can continue building anyway.

The latter updated accordingly. Also add `dist' and `distcheck' targets
to play with, but caveat packager.

Updated backend/bootstrap and backend/parser makefile to make them
marginally builddir aware and fix the usual set of things.

Add rule to automatically remake config.h dependent on config.h.in and
config.status. (Adopted from Autoconf manual and about every other
package.) On a good day we should now have a complete and accurate set
of dependencies throughout everything.

standard targets and behaviour. Replaced Makefile.in's with
Makefile's and declared the respective variables in Makefile.global.

maintainer-clean target now available at top level, although it does
not work in the backend tree yet.

Cleanup pass over Makefile.shlib, renamed some targets and variables.
The shared library symlink tests are now done by make, not the shell.

ecpg: Remove one warning in sloppy flex output.

PL/Perl and Perl interface: the MakeMaker documentation is confusing,
the realclean target *does* "delete derived files", but it also
uninstalls them. Don't use that.

The submake targets in the various bin directories that update libpq
should `make all', not `make libpq.a'. That is a) unportable, and
b) doesn't build the shared library.

properly.

fix recently applied to backend's lexer).  I see that YY_USES_REJECT
still gets defined for this lexer, which means it's going to have trouble
parsing really long tokens.  Not sure if it's worth doing anything about
that or not; I don't have the interest right now to understand why
ecpg's additions to the syntax cause this problem...

ecpg.patch (wrong makefile expansion in some cases)

        the ecpg Makefiles use a variable DESTDIR which is never defined
        except by debian/rules makefile, in which case the ecpg makefiles
        expand wrong pathnames. If we want to support a DESTDIR root it
        must be done consistently in all the makefiles, not just in ecpg.

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

been applied. The patches are in the .tar.gz attachment at the end:

varchar-array.patch     this patch adds support for arrays of bpchar() and
                        varchar(), which where always missing from postgres.

                        These datatypes can be used to replace the _char4,
                        _char8, etc., which were dropped some time ago.

block-size.patch        this patch fixes many errors in the parser and other
                        program which happen with very large query statements
                        (> 8K) when using a page size larger than 8192.

                        This patch is needed if you want to submit queries
                        larger than 8K. Postgres supports tuples up to 32K
                        but you can't insert them because you can't submit
                        queries larger than 8K. My patch fixes this problem.

                        The patch also replaces all the occurrences of `8192'
                        and `1<<13' in the sources with the proper constants
                        defined in include files. You should now never find
                        8192 hardwired in C code, just to make code clearer.


--
Massimo Dal Zotto

From: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>

+
+ Tue Feb 23 17:32:25 CET 1999
+
+       - Other than a struct a union itself cannot be specified as variable.
+
+ Fri Feb 26 07:18:25 CET 1999
+
+       - Synced preproc.y with gram.y.
+
+ Sat Feb 27 20:30:03 CET 1999
+
+       - Added automatic allocating for NULL pointers.

From: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>

+
+ Son Feb 21 14:10:47 CET 1999
+
+       - Fixed variable detection in libecpg.
+
+ Mon Feb 22 19:47:45 CET 1999
+
+       - Added 'at <db_connection>' option to all commands it is apllicable
+         to. Due to changing the API of some libecpg functions this
+         requires me to increase the major version number.
+       - Synced pgc.l with scan.l.
+       - Added support for unions.
+       - Set library version to 3.0.0
+       - Set ecpg version to 3.0.0

From: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>

See Changes file...

From: Michael Meskes <Michael.Meskes@usa.net>

+ Tue Feb  2 07:40:52 CET 1999
+
+       - Brought preproc.y in sync again with gram.y.
+       - Set ecpg version to 2.4.9
+

From: Michael Meskes <Michael.Meskes@usa.net>

+
+ Wed Jan 27 12:42:22 CET 1999
+
+       - Fixed bug that caused ecpg to lose 'goto' information.
+       - Set ecpg version to 2.4.7
+
+ Fri Jan 29 18:03:52 CET 1999
+
+       - Fixed bug that caused 'enum' to be rejected in pure C code.
+       - Fixed bug that caused function names to be translated to lower case.
+       - Set ecpg version to 2.4.8
+

remaining shift/reduce conflict. But the very same conflict is in gram.y, so
I don't dig into it very much now.

Anyway, I just saw that there were minor changes made to ecpg by others. Now
I like that but I would prefer if I was told about that. Otherwise my
version numbering and Changelog maintaining might break. Or simply change
these too. :-)

Also I had to add #include <errno.h> to  backend/libpq/pqcomprim.c to be
able to compile postgresql.

Patch is attached. Since my resubscription process is still not finished
yet, I still send them here.

Michael

From: Michael Meskes <Michael.Meskes@usa.net>

+
+Wed Dec  9 11:24:54 MEZ 1998
+
+       - Synced preproc.y with gram.y and the keywords.c files to add CASE
+         statement.
+
+Tue Dec 22 14:16:11 CET 1998
+
+       - Synced preproc.y with gram.y for locking statements.
+       - Set version to 2.4.5

Michael

Check strdup calls for out of memory.
Set library version to 2.6.2
Synced preproc.y and keywords.c with gram.y and keywords.c yet again.
Set version to 2.4.3