Interfaced a lot of the custom tests to the config.cache, in the process
made them separate macros and grouped them out into files. Made naming
adjustments.

Removed a couple of useless/unused configure tests.

Disabled C++ by default. C++ is no more special than Perl, Python, and Tcl.
And it breaks equally often. :(

that now functions as a wrapper around the MakeMaker stuff. It might
even behave sensically when we have separate build dirs. Same for plperl,
which of course still doesn't work very well. Made sure that plperl
respects the choice of --libdir.

Added --with-python to automatically build and install the Python interface.
Works similarly to the Perl5 stuff.

Moved the burden of the distclean targets lower down into the source tree.
Eventually, each make file should have its own.

Added automatic remaking of makefiles and configure. Currently only for the
top-level because of a bug(?) in Autoconf. Use GNU `missing' to work around
missing autoconf and aclocal. Start factoring out macros into their own
config/*.m4 files to increase readability and organization.

here bother to run autoconf, or pay attention when it complains?
To say nothing of actually committing the configure that goes with the
configure.in.
-- Tom the janitor.

I have made the couple of mods required to make the odbc driver with
postgres build and use unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org)

This patch was applied against the postgresql-7.0beta1 build

Any problems let me know.

Nick Gorham

CPP) to create platform independent files. Unfortunately, that means that
every config.status (or configure) run invariably causes a relink of the
postmaster and also that we can't put these files in the distribution
(usefully). So we make it a little smarter: when the output files already
exist and it notices that it would recreate them in identical form, it
doesn't touch them. In order to avoid re-running the make rule all the time
we update a timestamp file instead.

Update release_prep accordingly. Also make Gen_fmgrtab.sh use the awk that
is detected at configure time, not necessarily named `awk' and have it check
for exit statuses a little better.

In other news... Remove USE_LOCALE from the templates, it was set to `no'
everywhere anyway. Also remove YACC and YFLAGS from the templates, configure
is smart enough to find bison or yacc itself. Use AC_PROG_YACC for that
instead of the hand-crafted code. Do not set YFLAGS to `-d'. The make rules
that need this flag should explicitly invoke it. YFLAGS should be a user
variable. Update the makefiles to that effect.

configuration helper things into config/ dir. Adjusted some relative paths
in makefiles.

Install a default configuration file.

Clean up some funny business in the config file code.

That means you can now set your options in either or all of $PGDATA/configuration,
some postmaster option (--enable-fsync=off), or set a SET command. The list of
options is in backend/utils/misc/guc.c, documentation will be written post haste.

pg_options is gone, so is that pq_geqo config file. Also removed were backend -K,
-Q, and -T options (no longer applicable, although -d0 does the same as -Q).

Added to configure an --enable-syslog option.

changed all callers from TPRINTF to elog(DEBUG)

add a --with-setproctitle switch to configure that leaves the use of setproctitle()
disabled by default ...

it exists) before testing 'using namespace std'.  This is necessary
on some C++ setups where the compiler won't take a 'using' until
you've included a header that mentions namespace std.  (Pretty braindead
if you ask me, but...)

--with-includes) to makefiles for pltcl and plperl, so that these
switches will be used even though we do not want other top-level
CFLAGS.  Ain't it fun trying to support multiple-compiler platforms?

just use the portable form,
tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
There were a bunch of places that weren't paying attention to configure's
result anyway (including configure itself!?); clean them up too.

Add two checks ... one for setproctitle and one for -lutil ...

Don't do anything with them at this time, but am working on that ...

available C++ header files.

repaired psql option scanning bug (special treatment to \g |pipe)
fixed ipcclean makefile
made configure look for Perl to handle psql help build gracefully

multibyte encodings. These cannot be used as a backend/database encoding
(OK to use as a client encoding).

from Bill.Allie@mug.org.

'#include <string>' work in the local C++ compiler.

formatted descriptions of --with options.

command, the entries in template/.similar can really be regular
expressions.  This isn't a new feature, just an observation of what the
code already did.

        1) adds NetBSD shared lib support on both ELF and a.out platforms

        2) replaces "-L$(LIBPQDIR) -lpq" with "$(LIBPQ)" defined in
           Makefile.global.  This makes it much easier to build stuff in
           the source tree after you've already installed the libraries.

        3) adds TEMPLATEDIR in Makefile.global that indicates where the
           database templates are stored.  This separates the template files
           from real libraries that are installed in $(LIBDIR).
        4) changes include order of <readline/readline.h> and <readline.h>.
           The latest GNU readline installs its headers under a readline
           subdirectory.

In addition to applying the patch below the following files need to be copied:

        backend/port/dynloader:
                bsd.h -> netbsd.h
                bsd.c -> netbsd.c
        include/port:
                bsd.h -> netbsd.h
        makefiles:
                Makefile.bsd -> Makefile.netbsd

It would be great to see this incorporated into the source tree before
the 7.0 release is cut.

        Thanks!

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>

Completed psql's \? help

Improved psql's Ctrl-C handling
Fixed configure test for sigsetjmp that now even recognizes it if it's a macro

autoconf mailing list. ;)

have the rl_completion_append_character variable.  The tab completion
behavior doesn't seem to be quite perfect in that situation, but it's
better than failing to build at all...

Add check for --with-mb. It is now obsoleted.

- Prevent permissions on indexes
- Instituted --enable-multibyte option and tweaked the MB build process where necessary
- initdb prompts for superuser password

Instead of hard-wiring one result file per platform, there is a map file
'resultmap' that says which one to use --- a lot like template/.similar.
I have only created entries in resultmap for my own platform (HPUX) so
far; feel free to add lines for other platforms.

but do not bother to declare them in <stdio.h>.  Seems to be a more
common omission than you'd think...

backend/Makefiles to be patched could significantly be reduced since
they
have been adopted to the QNX4 needs.

Andreas Kardos