Re: 7.2b3 pg_dump, general 7.2b3 comments

Lamar Owen wrote:

> Hmmm. You know, it would be a good idea, IMHO, to enable debugging symbols in
> the beta RPMs anyway. So, I will do that for the next beta (or release
> candidate -- although, with that report from Jan, I wonder what the next
> release will be).
>
> In the meantime, Joe, if you can rebuild the RPM from source, here's what to
> do:
> 1.) rpm -i the source RPM.
> 2.) If you've never built from a source RPM before, see
> /usr/share/docs/postgresql-7.2b3/README.rpm-dist for some more information.
> 3.) Edit the spec file (on Red Hat, that would be in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS,
> name of 'postgresql.spec'), adding the following line near the top:
> %define __os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> 4.) Add the configure option. The rpm build process by default runs strip on
> the binaries.....
> 5.) rpm -ba postgresql.spec, wait a few minutes for the build, and pick up
> your RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.
>
> Or you can just wait until I upload a set with that line in it..... :-)
>

Thanks for the instructions, Lamar -- that helps quite a bit. I'll give
this a try next week.

Joe