| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Enver ALTIN <ealtin(at)parkyeri(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Devrim Gunduz <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>, Burcu Guzel <burcu(dot)guzel(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable |
| Date: | 2006-03-24 13:54:50 |
| Message-ID: | 7586828F-BCA0-45B0-B0B0-AFED609718F8@pgedit.com |
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On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Anyway, looking at the manpage of otool it doesn't say that it just
> prints the raw name, so perhaps it's doing the same as ldd. To be sure
> you'd need to strings the binary to see what it says.
Yes, strings shows the full path of prefix provided to configure. And
I can tell you from experience it is not relocatable :).
Here is a bug I recently filed for pgAdmin which discusses the use of
install_name_tool to make the reference relative. Certainly it would
be better if they could be compiled with relative references, but at
least I found a solution without having to understand gcc.
http://www.pgadmin.org/archives/pgadmin-support/2006-03/msg00053.php
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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