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Peter Eisentraut 6588d8416e Make pkg-config files cross-compile friendly
Currently the pc files use hard coded paths for "includedir" and
"libdir."

Example:

  Cflags: -I/usr/include
  Libs: -L/usr/lib -lpq

This is not very fortunate when cross compiling inside a buildroot,
where the includes and libs are inside a staging directory, because
this introduces host paths into the build:

  checking for pkg-config... /builder/shared-workdir/build/sdk/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config
  checking for PostgreSQL libraries via pkg_config... -L/usr/lib <----

This commit addresses this by doing the following two things:

  1. Instead of hard coding the paths in "Cflags" and "Libs"
     "${includedir}" and "${libdir}" are used.  Note: these variables
     can be overriden on the pkg-config command line
     ("--define-variable=libdir=/some/path").

  2. Add the variables "prefix" and "exec_prefix".  If "includedir"
     and/or "libdir" are using these then construct them accordingly.
     This is done because buildroots (for instance OpenWrt) tend to
     rename the real pkg-config and call it indirectly from a script
     that sets "prefix", "exec_prefix" and "bindir", like so:

     pkg-config.real --define-variable=prefix=${STAGING_PREFIX} \
       --define-variable=exec_prefix=${STAGING_PREFIX} \
       --define-variable=bindir=${STAGING_PREFIX}/bin $@

Example #1: user calls ./configure with "--libdir=/some/lib" and
"--includedir=/some/include":

  prefix=/usr/local/pgsql
  exec_prefix=${prefix}
  libdir=/some/lib
  includedir=/some/include

  Name: libpq
  Description: PostgreSQL libpq library
  Url: http://www.postgresql.org/
  Version: 12.1
  Requires:
  Requires.private:
  Cflags: -I${includedir}
  Libs: -L${libdir} -lpq
  Libs.private:  -lcrypt -lm

Example #2: user calls ./configure with no arguments:

  prefix=/usr/local/pgsql
  exec_prefix=${prefix}
  libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
  includedir=${prefix}/include

  Name: libpq
  Description: PostgreSQL libpq library
  Url: http://www.postgresql.org/
  Version: 12.1
  Requires:
  Requires.private:
  Cflags: -I${includedir}
  Libs: -L${libdir} -lpq
  Libs.private:  -lcrypt -lm

Like this the paths can be forced into the staging directory when
using a buildroot setup:

  checking for pkg-config... /home/sk/tmp/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config
  checking for PostgreSQL libraries via pkg_config... -L/home/sk/tmp/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/usr/lib

Author: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200305213827.GA25135%40darth.lan
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	https://www.postgresql.org/download/

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
https://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.