Missing postgres.h

[joergfaubel]

Hi all,

when I run 'PATH="/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH" make USE_PGXS=1' under Debian bookworm the postgres.h is not found.

$ PATH="/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH" make USE_PGXS=1
"Platform is: linux"
gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Werror=vla -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wcast-function-type -Wshadow=compatible-local -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fexcess-precision=standard -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-stringop-truncation -g -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -I. -I./ -I/usr/include/postgresql/17/server -I/usr/include/postgresql/internal -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -c -o system_stats.o system_stats.c
system_stats.c:13:10: fatal error: postgres.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
13 | #include "postgres.h"
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

the include of postgres.h is in system_stats.c

BR

[VijayakumarRavi]

fixed it after flowing https://stackoverflow.com/a/61877103/14472053.