Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | John Summerfield |
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Subject | Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version |
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Msg-id | 200109062346.f86NkUi03415@possum.os2.ami.com.au Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>) |
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Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version
(Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>) |
List | pgsql-hackers |
> Tom Lane writes: > > > > What we probably want is some configure switch that switches between the > > > current behaviour and the behaviour you want. > > > > I'd suggest --prefix-like options to determine installation locations > > for the perl and python modules, > > Basically, I was envisioning some option like > > --enable-local-installation-layout > --enable-playpen-installation I'd point out this from the INSTALL document: --prefix=PREFIX Install all files under the directory PREFIX instead of /usr/local/pgsql. The actual files will be installedinto various subdirectories; no files will ever be installed directly into the PREFIX directory. If you have special needs, you can also customize the individual subdirectories with the following options. This is entirely consistent with the way other software that uses the same configuration procedure. I contend that if a user wants different behaviour the onus is on the user to specify that. I've no argument with those who'd make it easy to specify that different behaviour with, perhaps, --disable-perl-install as a configure option. Installing everything under --prefix (as the document says) would also help package builders; the current rpm looks pretty horrible (and that's why I didn't pursue THAT path). > > just something, um, better. (If we name them --with-perldir, then 51% of > the users will think that's the location where Perl itself is installed.) > > Actually, if you do opt for the "playpen" version then the actual choice > of installation directory shouldn't be so interesting. The only > reasonable place is ${libdir}/postgresql, unless you want to make up your > own file system standard. > > > plus options on the order of --no-install-perl (ie, build it, but > > don't install it). > > This is currently the default behaviour, if you recall. ;-) Actually the reason it gave for not installing the perl bits is that I didn't have the authority. It would have been completely happy if I'd been root. And I wouldn't have. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
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