Re: postgresql -- missing files?

[Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost>]

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Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:22:04PM +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote:
>>    According to the PL/R developer, those files should have been
>> installed for me when I installed postgresql. He suggests that perhaps
>> there is a "postgres-devel" package. AFAIK, the general philosophy in
>> pkgsrc is that there are no "devel" packages. When you install a
>> package, you get it all -- which is the way I prefer it.
> 
> We don't install them, because there was literally NO use for them so
> far. I also strongly question whether it makes sense at all. Seriously,
> is that piece of software you see not using autoconf or so anyway?

   Homepage is here: http://www.joeconway.com/plr/

   tarball is here: http://www.joeconway.com/plr/plr-8.2.0.4.tar.gz

   File list:

$ tar tzvf /home/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/distfiles/plr-8.2.0.4.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     wheel          0 Jun 12 23:40 plr
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel       1724 Sep 11  2006 plr/Makefile
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel       2570 Sep 11  2006 plr/README.plr
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      10632 Jun 12 23:35
plr/pg_backend_support.c
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      33024 Sep 11  2006 plr/pg_conversion.c
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      14451 Jun 12 23:35 plr/pg_rsupport.c
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      10691 Sep 11  2006 plr/pg_userfuncs.c
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      40745 Jun 12 23:35 plr/plr.c
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      14205 Jun 12 23:35 plr/plr.h
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel       1900 Sep 11  2006 plr/plr.sql.in
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     wheel          0 Jun 12 23:40 plr/doc
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel        113 Feb 11  2003 plr/doc/pg_doc
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      46440 Sep 11  2006 plr/doc/plr.sgml
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel       1375 Apr  5  2004
plr/doc/stylesheet.css
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       2327 Jun 12 23:40 plr/doc/index.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       4025 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-aggregate-funcs.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       7287 Jun 12 23:40 plr/doc/plr-data.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       3260 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-func-naming.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       7607 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-funcs.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       6336 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-global-data.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       5316 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-install.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       2896 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-license.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       4039 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-module-funcs.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       3611 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-overview.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       7679 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-pgsql-support-funcs.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel      12958 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-spi-rsupport-funcs.html
- -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel       7076 Jun 12 23:40
plr/doc/plr-trigger-func.html
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     wheel          0 Jun 12 23:40 plr/expected
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      19937 Sep 11  2006 plr/expected/plr.out
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     wheel          0 Jun 12 23:40 plr/sql
- -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      14417 Sep 11  2006 plr/sql/plr.sql
tar: ustar vol 1, 31 files, 317440 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs
(317440 bytes/sec)

   As far as I can tell, there's no autoconf.

> The fragment saves barely no work...

   So, which would involve less work: Installing those "missing" files,
or build autoconf-stuff for PL/R? (I'm not opting in for it, because I
know too little about autoconf).

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Kind regards,
Jan Danielsson

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