Re: $libdir and 8.0

Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
> > When installing PgSQL into a non-standard location (like /opt/foo) the
> > configure script decides to install all the contrib libraries and
> > plpglsq into /opt/foo/lib/postgresql. This would be fine, except that
> > backend does not recognize this directory as a place to be searched for
> > $libdir (perhaps it is referencing the $libdir macro instead of the
> > $pkglibdir macro?). So tools like 'createlang' fail, and loading .sql
> > files that reference things like $libdir/libfoo.so also fail.
>
> I'm not sure but if you add /opt/foo/lib/postgresql to /etc/ld.so.conf and
> run ldconfig, it might work.

I checked in the code and $libdir should expand to $(pkglibdir) as
determined by configure. What value to you show for that in
your Makefile.global?

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