Re: PostgreSQL wants SSL on Darwin, how to configure?

Ville> I find using a *config program or a pkgconfig *.pc file Ville> more future proof than that. In theory, but the code I'm modifying basically goes back to 1999 IIRC and still works for *finding* PostgreSQL. It's diagnosing the additional libraries where it falls down. And as you point out, pg_config doesn't do the --lib stuff that I'm working on. So tell me again about future proofing when the technology has succeeded at least once in the past. ;-) Jokes aside, I'm all for portability. pkgconfig probably _does_ give it by now, but none of the programs I hack configure for use it (I think I was told about one exception, probably freetype, a couple of months ago but haven't got around to picking up on that). All of the ad hoc programs suffer from the same kind of problem that pg_config does: they don't work in as many contexts as autoconf hackery does, so you need to do the autoconf hackery anyway. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.