Re: RHEL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: RHEL
Date
Msg-id 3FB3E20B.3020104@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: RHEL  (Bjørn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no>)
List pgsql-general
Bjørn T Johansen wrote:

>Just a question... Are there any reasons not to just take the source and
>compile it under RHEL 3.0? Or am I missing something?
>(We are about to install 3.0, so I would really like to know..)
>
>
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In fact there are some reasons *to* do this :

- compiler optimizations specific for your platform
- add or remove configurable options from the build

Ps : and in principle, the whole *point* of having an open source
product is the freedom to get the source and build it yourself :-)

Just 2c

Mark




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