Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Enver ALTIN <ealtin(at)parkyeri(dot)com>, Devrim Gunduz <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>, Burcu Guzel <burcu(dot)guzel(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable
Date: 2006-03-24 07:23:02
Message-ID: 200603240823.03985.peter_e@gmx.net
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Greg Stark wrote:
> I'm sure this isn't the only possible gotcha but I do seem to recall
> that on Solaris there's no such thing as a default LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> Every binary stores absolute paths to every shared library it's
> linked against.

On Solaris you can actually use relative library paths by writing
$ORIGIN in the path. We don't do that right now, but it's possible.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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