QGIS trunk failed to build with PostgreSQL 9.3.0

[qgib]

Author Name: Xavier Fung (Xavier Fung)
Original Redmine Issue: 8599
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:build/install

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Cannot build QGIS trunk version with PostgreSQL 9.3.0. The header file location has changed.

Scanning dependencies of target postgresprovider
[ 37%] Building CXX object src/providers/postgres/CMakeFiles/postgresprovider.dir/qgspostgresprovider.cpp.o
In file included from /usr/include/libpq-fe.h:29:0,
from /home/xavier/dev/qgis-git/src/qgis/src/providers/postgres/qgspostgresconn.h:31,
from /home/xavier/dev/qgis-git/src/qgis/src/providers/postgres/qgspostgresprovider.h:24,
from /home/xavier/dev/qgis-git/src/qgis/src/providers/postgres/qgspostgresprovider.cpp:32:
/usr/include/postgres_ext.h:26:27: fatal error: pg_config_ext.h: No such file or directory
#include "pg_config_ext.h"
^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [src/providers/postgres/CMakeFiles/postgresprovider.dir/qgspostgresprovider.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/providers/postgres/CMakeFiles/postgresprovider.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

A temp workaround is to symlink pg_config_ext.h to /usr/include.

[qgib]

Author Name: Xavier Fung (Xavier Fung)

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I can confirm that this is no longer an issue as an updated package from Arch added back the required header file.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed