I see the port.h also present in the postgresql-server-dev package. Here is
the list:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/postgresql-server-dev-9.3/filelist

if you build the sources, you will find port.h always in server include.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Steve Singer <ssinger at ca.afilias.info>wrote:

> On 12/11/2013 05:14 AM, Sandeep Thakkar wrote:
>
>> How did you install postgresql on Debian? I have built PosrgreSQL
>> sources on CentOS, OSX and Windows and the port.h is installed in
>> include/postgresql/server/port.h and include/postgresql/internal/port.h
>> on all platforms.
>>
>
>
> The packages from apt.postgresql.org
>
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Steve Singer <ssinger at ca.afilias.info
>> <mailto:ssinger at ca.afilias.info>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 11/29/2013 04:30 AM, Sandeep Thakkar wrote:
>>
>>         The only work around I see now if to set the CPPFLAGS in the
>>         environment
>>         to the server include directory, so that CPPFLAGS_CLIENT takes
>>         it in the
>>         Makefile.global.
>>
>>
>>
>>     So in debian (or at least with Wheezy) where the original bug 315
>>     was reported
>>
>>
>>     libpq-dev puts port.h in /usr/include/postgresql/port.h so it gets
>>     picked up by the client include paths.  I am able to do a build with
>>     --with-pgport
>>
>>     This isn't actually a problem on debian, is the problem on OSX that
>>     port.h isn't being put in the libpq header directories?  Should it?
>>     Where do other platforms/distributions put port.h ?
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Steve Singer
>>         <ssinger at ca.afilias.info <mailto:ssinger at ca.afilias.info>
>>         <mailto:ssinger at ca.afilias.__info
>>
>>         <mailto:ssinger at ca.afilias.info>>> wrote:
>>
>>              On 11/26/2013 04:14 AM, Sandeep Thakkar wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi
>>
>>                  I was building Slony1-2.2.1 sources on Mac OS X and
>>         found that
>>                  the build
>>                  fails because of:
>>
>>                  slonik.c:49:18: error: port.h: No such file or directory
>>                  CPPFLAGS is now defined to just CPPFLAGS_CLIENT that
>>         does not
>>                  include
>>                  the PG "server" include directory
>>                  ('<pginstall>/include/____postgresql/server' contains
>>
>>         port.h). Any
>>
>>                  specific
>>                  reason why this change was made in 2.2.1?
>>
>>
>>
>>         http://www.slony.info/____bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=315
>>         <http://www.slony.info/__bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=315>
>>
>>
>>              <http://www.slony.info/__bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=315
>>         <http://www.slony.info/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=315>>
>>
>>              On systems that have multiple versions of postgresql
>>         installed might
>>              pull in files for the client from one version and server
>>         includes
>>              from another.  You used to be able to get away with this
>>         but in more
>>              recent versions of PG this breaks things.
>>
>>              I am not exactly sure what the best way to deal with this
>>         in the
>>              PGPORT case? I have a feeling just adding the server
>>         includes back
>>              in on --with-pgport builds will get us back to the bug 315
>>         situation
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                  --
>>                  Sandeep Thakkar
>>
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