Re: [HACKERS] Perl library (was Building Postgres)

Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>
>> I'm now trying to package the perl (and next, python) interfaces. Can
>> someone with perl installation experience give me some hints on what
>> actually needs to be installed and how it has to happen?
>
>Me thinks the guy who's building the Debian packages should have some
>experience with these. IIRC that'd be Oliver Elphick (?).

The Perl package gave me the most trouble; the more so since I rarely
use Perl and only have the vaguest notion of what's going on in the pgperl
build!

Here are extracts from the Debian makefile:

HERE := $(shell pwd)
debtmp= $(HERE)/debian/tmp # pgperl package gets put in
# $(debtmp)/../libpgperl

src/config.cache:
cd src &&\
echo /usr/include/ncurses /usr/include/readline | \
./configure --prefix=$(HERE)/debian/tmp/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-template=$(TEMPLATE) \
--with-tcl \
--enable-locale \
--with-pgport=5432

perl-config: src/config.cache
cd src/interfaces/perl5 && \
INSTALLDIRS=perl \
PREFIX=$(debtmp)/usr \
POSTGRES_HOME=$(debtmp)/usr/lib/postgresql \
INSTALLMAN1DIR=$(debtmp)/usr/man/man1 \
INSTALLMAN3DIR=$(debtmp)/usr/man/man3 \
OVERRIDE=true \
perl Makefile.PL && \
touch perl-config

perl-build: build
cp -a src/include $(debtmp)/usr/lib/postgresql/
cp src/interfaces/libpq/*.h $(debtmp)/usr/lib/postgresql/include
cd src/interfaces/perl5 && \
$(MAKE) PREFIX=$(debtmp)/usr \
POSTGRES_HOME=$(debtmp)/usr/lib/postgresql \
INSTALLDIRS=perl \
INSTALLMAN1DIR=$(debtmp)/usr/man/man1 \
INSTALLMAN3DIR=$(debtmp)/usr/man/man3 \
LDDLFLAGS="-shared -L$(debtmp)/usr/lib" \
LDFLAGS=-L../libpq \
LDLOADLIBS="-L../libpq -lpq -lc"
rm -rf $(debtmp)/usr/lib/postgresql/include

binary-arch: build-test perl-build install-python
# patch current arch into libpgperl's directory and file lists
sed 's/%ARCH%/$(ARCH)/g' <debian/libpgperl.dirs.in >debian/libpgperl.dirs
sed 's/%ARCH%/$(ARCH)/g' <debian/libpgperl.files.in >debian/libpgperl.files
dh_installdirs -a
# install files into the debian/<package> trees
...
cd src/interfaces/perl5 && \
$(MAKE) PREFIX=$(debtmp)/usr \
POSTGRES_HOME=$(debtmp)/usr/lib/postgresql \
INSTALLDIRS=perl \
INSTALLMAN1DIR=$(debtmp)/usr/man/man1 \
INSTALLMAN3DIR=$(debtmp)/usr/man/man3 \
LDDLFLAGS="-shared -L$(debtmp)/usr/lib" \
LDFLAGS=-L../libpq \
pure_install
...
rm -f debian/libpgperl/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/.packlist
rm -rf $(debtmp)/usr/lib/perl5
rm -rf debian/libpgperl/usr/lib/perl5/i386

If you want the full works, download the Debian source package for
PostgreSQL - 6.4.2 will do (Debian's current unstable version, shortly
to be replaced by 6.5)

>(just imagine, redhat and debian cooperating, hell must be freezing
>over ;)

Just comfortably warm, thanks!

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