[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#717073: The libpq-dev package misses some dependencies

[Christoph Berg]

> > The real issue might as well be that the output of `pg_config --libs` is
> > wrong: I have just been able to link a program to libpq without libxml2,
> > libxslt or libedit and it runs fine.
> 
> Nope, the real issue is that pg_config is not pkg-config :)
> 
> pg_config --help says
>   --libs                show LIBS value used when PostgreSQL was built
> 
> So it has nothing in common with pkg-config --libs pq (if that would 
> exist) which will tell you which libs are needed to link with libpq.

Nod. pg_config --libs and --cflags should not really be used to link
against libpq. (I agree that it is confusing.)

9.3 will have pkg-config support:

$ pkg-config --libs --cflags libpq
-I/usr/include/postgresql  -lpq

Christoph
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