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Back-patch commit dddfc4cb2, which broke LDFLAGS and related Makefile variables into two parts, one for within-build-tree library references and one for external libraries, to ensure that the order of -L flags has all of the former before all of the latter. This turns out to fix a problem recently noted on buildfarm member peripatus, that we attempted to incorporate code from libpgport.a into a shared library. That will fail on platforms that are sticky about putting non-PIC code into shared libraries. (It's quite surprising we hadn't seen such failures before, since the code in question has been like that for a long time.) I think that peripatus' problem could have been fixed with just a subset of this patch; but since the previous issue of accidentally linking to the wrong copy of a Postgres shlib seems likely to bite people in the field, let's just back-patch the whole change. Now that commit dddfc4cb2 has survived some beta testing, I'm less afraid to back-patch it than I was at the time. This also fixes undesired inclusion of "-DFRONTEND" in pg_config's CPPFLAGS output (in 9.6 and up) and undesired inclusion of "-L../../src/common" in its LDFLAGS output (in all supported branches). Back-patch to v10 and older branches; this is already in v11. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180704234304.bq2dxispefl65odz@ler-imac.local
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.