> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve fox [mailto:steve@wiscota.net]
> Sent: 17 January 2004 06:55
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] gentoo, anyone?
>
> Hi,
Hi,
> I've been trying to get pgadmin3 running on gentoo linux, and
> get the following errors:
>
> checking pgsql in /usr... failed
> configure: error: you must specify a valid pgsql installation
> with --with-pgsql=DIR
>
> !!! ERROR: dev-db/pgadmin3-1.0.2 failed.
> !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed
Did you try:
./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local
> Postgresql is installed, pgsql lives in /usr/local. I've
> symlinked it to /usr/pgsql thinking that would fix it, but it
> doesn't. Is there a way to pass the --with-pgsql option to
> emerge?
What's emerge?
> And I didn't know it was required to have postgresql
> installed on the same box -- my postgres servers are all remote.
You need it for the libpq client library. The server itself doesn't need
to be running, or even initdb'ed. If you make a static build of pgAdmin,
then you can even get rid of it after your build is complete.
Regards, Dave.
