Re: Question about the contrib rpm ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 3/3/06, Agnes Bocchino <agnes.bocchino@bull.net> wrote:
> Hello Tom, hello List,
>
> Sorry if we haven't been clear in our first mail.
> We don't really understand your answer.
> So, we try to clarify our general question and give more details :
>
> When we go on the web site to download PostgreSQL 8.1.2,
> we find not only the serveur rpm but also some others rpms.
> and we don't kow which of them we have to install together with our rpm
> make from the 8.1.2 targz.
>
> We are making our rpm on Novascale Ia64
> We have used the "postgresql-8.1.2.tar.gz" file downloaded from the
> PostGreSQL web site. From that file, we have re-compiled PostGreSQL for
> IA64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, with the "icc" Intel compiler.
> We would like to 'deliver'  a more complete set as possible.
> and we don't know if we have to package some others packages..
> For the langage python,perl,tcl .......we know that if we need them we
> have to use the --with option when we compile.
> It seems also to us that it is not necessary to have the lib rpm as the
> necessary librairies are include in the rpm when wecompile and package it.
> but ..............we dont' know what doing with the *contrib *rpm
> available on the net, should we have to deliver it with our rpm.
>
> Why this question ?
> When we have extract files from the archive file, we have obtained these
> directories :
> [/BUILD/postgresql-8.1.2]$ ls -ltr
> total 1528
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql    445 Apr 23  2004 aclocal.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql   1375 Oct  1  2004 README
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql   1412 Oct  6  2004 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql   1192 Dec 31  2004 COPYRIGHT
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql   3435 May  1  2005 GNUmakefile.in
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 postdev pgsql 689752 Jan  5 05:02 configure
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql  43596 Jan  5 05:02 configure.in
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql 387774 Jan  6 05:09 HISTORY
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql  44484 Jan  6 05:09 INSTALL
> drwxr-xr-x   2 postdev pgsql   4096 Jan  6 05:09 config
> drwxr-xr-x  35 postdev pgsql   4096 Jan  6 05:09 *contrib*
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql   3435 Feb 16 12:22 GNUmakefile
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 postdev pgsql  56658 Feb 16 12:22 config.status
> drwxr-xr-x  15 postdev pgsql   4096 Feb 16 12:22 src
> drwxr-xr-x   7 postdev pgsql   4096 Feb 16 12:22 doc
> -rw-r--r--   1 postdev pgsql 278305 Feb 16 12:22 config.log
>
> Under the "contrib" repertory, we have among others things
> "*start-scripts*" directory which contains the "linux" file which allows
> to launch automatically PostGreSQL each time the machine reboots.
> [ contrib]# ls
> adddepend          dblink         intarray   mSQL-interface
> pgstattuple    tablefunc
> btree_gist         dbmirror       isbn_issn  oid2name
> pg_trgm        tips
> chkpass            earthdistance  lo         oracle
> README         tsearch2
> contrib-global.mk  fulltextindex  ltree      pgbench
> seg            userlock
> cube               fuzzystrmatch  mac        pg_buffercache
> spi            vacuumlo
> dbase              intagg         Makefile   pgcrypto
> start-scripts  xml2
>
>
> And when we install our rpm, we don't have a "contrib" directory such as
> this obtains after having extracted the files from the tar.gz archive.
> Our question is how to add in the rpm that we have generated a "contrib"
> directory, in order to have scripts like "linux" ?

If you're building your own rpm you'll need to do it yourself - that's
getting beyond what this list can help you with.

> Or  should we used the "contrib" rpm available in the web site

No - because it's not built for your system or with your compiler, it
may work but you may also run into strange bugs.