Re: [ADMIN] Re: [GENERAL] Re: DBD-Pg Install problems

Get the 6.5.1 RPMs and it will set up everything for you.

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, astromonk wrote:

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> well let's see rpm -ql postgresql-devel
> lists the following directorys as having files
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> /usr/lib/pgsql
> /usr/include/pgsql
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> so now what do i set POSTGRES_HOME to to get this to work? It would be nice had
> it been /usr/pgsql/include and /usr/pgsql/lib but it is not that way.
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> so do I have to hack the Makefile? Why is it that PostgreSQL has a different
> directory structure for the same version on different distributions? I just want
> to get this thing installed and working.
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> Oliver Elphick wrote:
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> > astromonk wrote:
> > ....
> > >I checked the documentation and still not sure what I should set POSTGRES_HO
> > >ME to.
> > >I set it to /usr/lib/pgsql where some files are found and /var/lib/pgsql whe
> > >re other
> > >postgres files are found and tried to install DBD but it still told me that
> > >I needed to
> > >set POSTGRES_HOME. What is DBD looking for anyway?
> >
> > It's using it here (Makefile.PL):
> > my %opts = (
> > ....
> > INC => "-I$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/include ...
> > ....
> > LIBS => ["-L$ENV{POSTGRES_HOME}/lib -lpq"],
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> > );
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> > So it wants to find the include files and the libraries.
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