the latest version and I wanted to make sure that there was a clean release.

I also change the build files as I discussed in my letter of Nov 6, 2001.  At
the time I was asked to hold off until after the release.

places that were including the wrong files.

choice of compiler and flags, uninstall, and peculiar Python installation
layouts for PyGreSql.  Also install into site-packages now, as officially
recommended.  And pgdb.py is also installed now, used to be forgotten.

> > The attached patch changes src/interfaces/python/GNUmakefile to use the
> > value of DESTDIR like the rest (or at least most) of the PostgreSQL
> > makefiles.  I found this problem when trying to package a pre-built
> > Cygwin PostgreSQL distribution, but this problem is platform independent.

value of DESTDIR like the rest (or at least most) of the PostgreSQL
makefiles.  I found this problem when trying to package a pre-built
Cygwin PostgreSQL distribution, but this problem is platform independent.

The problem manifests itself when one tries to install into a stagging
area (e.g., to build a tarball) instead of a real install.  In this case,
pg.py and _pgmodule$(SO) still end up being installed in the configured
prefix directory ignoring the value of DESTDIR.

Unfortunately, this patch does not handle the case where PostgreSQL
and Python are configured with different prefixes.  Since the Python
Makefile is automatically generated and does not use DESTDIR, I believe
that this issue will be difficult to correct.  If anyone has ideas on
how to fix this issue, then I'm quite willing to rework the patch to
take the suggestion into account.

Jason Tishler

there's no shared libpython.  Test suite works as well. Also, add some
documentation.

Other flags can have unpredictable effects when Python uses different
commands to build than we do.

up -L options.

to one another. Sort out builddir vs srcdir variable namings. Remove some
now obsoleted make variables.

standard targets and behaviour. Replaced Makefile.in's with
Makefile's and declared the respective variables in Makefile.global.

maintainer-clean target now available at top level, although it does
not work in the backend tree yet.

Cleanup pass over Makefile.shlib, renamed some targets and variables.
The shared library symlink tests are now done by make, not the shell.

ecpg: Remove one warning in sloppy flex output.

PL/Perl and Perl interface: the MakeMaker documentation is confusing,
the realclean target *does* "delete derived files", but it also
uninstalls them. Don't use that.

The submake targets in the various bin directories that update libpq
should `make all', not `make libpq.a'. That is a) unportable, and
b) doesn't build the shared library.

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.