Re: [HACKERS] Building Postgres

> In the meantime, I'd suggest living with the static-library build, or
> else installing libpq and then repeating the build step for psql...

For v6.5, I think I'm going to do the phased build (the "repeating"
option). But I'm pretty sure I'll do it with a patch to the top level
Makefile, and will suggest it as a feature for v6.6, so this phasing
can be repeated.

It's an interesting problem, since preparing an rpm involves building
the entire app, and then copying pieces like libraries into the binary
rpm file. For the basic pieces this looks fairly straightforward,
except for the phasing problem mentioned above, but for some packages
like perl and pythong it apparently involves modifying configuration
files in the perl or python distribution itself. Hopefully there will
be a reasonable way to do it...

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
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