Re: BUG #5250: Tutorial examples(pre-compiled) not present with precompiled binary version of PostgreSQL.

Just to make it clear, if it wasn't apparent already, my operating system is
Windows 7.

--Ashish.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> > In 12 years of working with PG, I never noticed that directory
> > required building manually (which is why it's not it any installer
> > from EDB, or the community). Is there any reason for that?
>
> To judge from the RPM examples, you'd probably need special actions
> anyway. The RPMs need to change the installed path. I have these
> steps in the Fedora/Red Hat specfile:
>
> # Have to hack makefile to put correct path into tutorial scripts
> sed "s|C=\`pwd\`;|C=%{_libdir}/pgsql/tutorial;|" < src/tutorial/Makefile >
> src/tutorial/GNUmakefile
> make %{?_smp_mflags} -C src/tutorial NO_PGXS=1 all
> rm -f src/tutorial/GNUmakefile
>
> install -d -m 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/pgsql/tutorial
> cp src/tutorial/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/pgsql/tutorial
>
> It looks to me like the unmodified Makefile builds the .sql files
> on the assumption they will be used *in the source tree*. So basically
> no installer could use that as-is anyway.
>
> regards, tom lane
>