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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-16 19:46:48 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-16 19:46:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/man1/pg_config.1 b/doc/src/sgml/man1/pg_config.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..160ce45 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/man1/pg_config.1 @@ -0,0 +1,257 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: pg_config +.\" Author: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 2023 +.\" Manual: PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation +.\" Source: PostgreSQL 15.4 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "PG_CONFIG" "1" "2023" "PostgreSQL 15.4" "PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +pg_config \- retrieve information about the installed version of PostgreSQL +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP \w'\fBpg_config\fR\ 'u +\fBpg_config\fR [\fIoption\fR...] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +The +pg_config +utility prints configuration parameters of the currently installed version of +PostgreSQL\&. It is intended, for example, to be used by software packages that want to interface to +PostgreSQL +to facilitate finding the required header files and libraries\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +To use +pg_config, supply one or more of the following options: +.PP +\fB\-\-bindir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of user executables\&. Use this, for example, to find the +\fBpsql\fR +program\&. This is normally also the location where the +pg_config +program resides\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-docdir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of documentation files\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-htmldir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of HTML documentation files\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-includedir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of C header files of the client interfaces\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-pkgincludedir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of other C header files\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-includedir\-server\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of C header files for server programming\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-libdir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of object code libraries\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-pkglibdir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of dynamically loadable modules, or where the server would search for them\&. (Other architecture\-dependent data files might also be installed in this directory\&.) +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-localedir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of locale support files\&. (This will be an empty string if locale support was not configured when +PostgreSQL +was built\&.) +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-mandir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of manual pages\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-sharedir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of architecture\-independent support files\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-sysconfdir\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of system\-wide configuration files\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-pgxs\fR +.RS 4 +Print the location of extension makefiles\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-configure\fR +.RS 4 +Print the options that were given to the +configure +script when +PostgreSQL +was configured for building\&. This can be used to reproduce the identical configuration, or to find out with what options a binary package was built\&. (Note however that binary packages often contain vendor\-specific custom patches\&.) See also the examples below\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-cc\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fICC\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows the C compiler used\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-cppflags\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fICPPFLAGS\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows C compiler switches needed at preprocessing time (typically, +\-I +switches)\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-cflags\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fICFLAGS\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows C compiler switches\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-cflags_sl\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fICFLAGS_SL\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows extra C compiler switches used for building shared libraries\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-ldflags\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fILDFLAGS\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows linker switches\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-ldflags_ex\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fILDFLAGS_EX\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows linker switches used for building executables only\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-ldflags_sl\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fILDFLAGS_SL\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This shows linker switches used for building shared libraries only\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-libs\fR +.RS 4 +Print the value of the +\fILIBS\fR +variable that was used for building +PostgreSQL\&. This normally contains +\-l +switches for external libraries linked into +PostgreSQL\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-\-version\fR +.RS 4 +Print the version of +PostgreSQL\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-?\fR +.br +\fB\-\-help\fR +.RS 4 +Show help about +pg_config +command line arguments, and exit\&. +.RE +If more than one option is given, the information is printed in that order, one item per line\&. If no options are given, all available information is printed, with labels\&. +.SH "NOTES" +.PP +The options +\fB\-\-docdir\fR, +\fB\-\-pkgincludedir\fR, +\fB\-\-localedir\fR, +\fB\-\-mandir\fR, +\fB\-\-sharedir\fR, +\fB\-\-sysconfdir\fR, +\fB\-\-cc\fR, +\fB\-\-cppflags\fR, +\fB\-\-cflags\fR, +\fB\-\-cflags_sl\fR, +\fB\-\-ldflags\fR, +\fB\-\-ldflags_sl\fR, and +\fB\-\-libs\fR +were added in +PostgreSQL +8\&.1\&. The option +\fB\-\-htmldir\fR +was added in +PostgreSQL +8\&.4\&. The option +\fB\-\-ldflags_ex\fR +was added in +PostgreSQL +9\&.0\&. +.SH "EXAMPLE" +.PP +To reproduce the build configuration of the current PostgreSQL installation, run the following command: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +eval \&./configure `pg_config \-\-configure` +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +The output of +pg_config \-\-configure +contains shell quotation marks so arguments with spaces are represented correctly\&. Therefore, using +eval +is required for proper results\&. |