Re: Postgres 7.1RC1 on Solaris 7 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Postgres 7.1RC1 on Solaris 7
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0104071948190.909-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Postgres 7.1RC1 on Solaris 7  (Justin Clift <jclift@iprimus.com.au>)
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Justin Clift writes:

> It doesn't seem to have been mentioned that the preferable way to
> compile PostgreSQL on Solaris is to unset your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and set
> an LD_RUN_PATH instead.
>
> That is right isn't it?

Not really.  You don't need to set either of these variables.  In the
problem that was posted LD_LIBRARY_PATH was necessary to find a
non-PostgreSQL library.  This is a system administration issue, which any
other source package (that uses the library in question) would run into.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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