Hi, Dave -
Comments below.
Dave Page wrote:
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>>-----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?
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>>Hi,
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> Hi,
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>>I've been trying to get pgadmin3 running on gentoo linux, and
>>get the following errors:
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>>checking pgsql in /usr... failed
>>configure: error: you must specify a valid pgsql installation
>>with --with-pgsql=DIR
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>>!!! ERROR: dev-db/pgadmin3-1.0.2 failed.
>>!!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed
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> Did you try:
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> ./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local
No. See, the deal with gentoo is you don't run the typical .configure
and make commands to build your packages. Rather you use 'emerge,'
which is a command to build packages in gentoo linux.
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>>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?
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> What's emerge?
something like BSD ports and debian packages. You sync up with the
mothership tree to stay current. Normally one would handle .configre
[options] with a setting in a variable called $USE, but I'm not able to
find it in this case.
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>>And I didn't know it was required to have postgresql
>>installed on the same box -- my postgres servers are all remote.
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> 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.
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> Regards, Dave.
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