Feature Request? Was Re: GnuCash 1.6.5 is released.

[A Guy Called Tyketto]

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:52:15AM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
>  1.6.5  - 16 December 2001
>          o Euro conversion druid
>          o Updated or new translations for Brazilian Portuguese,
>            Danish, German, Nicaraguan Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese,
>            Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish
>          o minor bug fixes
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        Just one small request, after I gave this a swift compile. Could it=
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possible have the --enable-sql flag to configure accept a path to the=20
installation for PostgreSQL? By default, when one compiles the postgresql=
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source, the binary, libs, includes, et. al, go into /usr/local/pgsql. when=
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autoconfed, gnucash goes to look for libpq-fe.h, and tries to find it, in=
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pgsql/, postgresql/, then by itself.. something along the lines of:

        for ac_hdr in pgsql/libpq-fe.h postgresql/libpq-fe.h libpq-fe.h ...

        There is no prefixed path given to these, for them to be found, and=
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ultimately fail. If they were given at configuring time, they could easily =
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passed to these, and find what they're suppsoed to find; like when someone=
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specifies the base directory for their gnome installation to be in /opt/gno=
me.

        could this be given a try, and if needing a default, give=20
/usr/lib/postgresql, so most software dists don't have to worry with includ=
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programs put in odd places? I don't see where this would hurt.. if it does,=
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lemme know. :) I hacked configure in my tree for 1.6.5 to find it in the ri=
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places, but supplying a path to it would be tons easier.

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